Sunday Night Theatre - Season 1
Season 1
Episodes
Cheapside
A play of old London by James Parish.
The action of the play takes place in and about the Winsloe home in Cheapside, and covers a period of five days in September, 1665 - the year of the Great Plague.
Trespass
A ghost story by Emlyn Williams.
The play is set in Wales: the time is the present.
The Scarlet Pimpernel
A play by Baroness Orczy and Montague Barstow.
The action takes place in England and France during the year 1792.
The Indifferent Shepherd
A play by Peter Ustinov.
The action takes place in the Vicarage at Oldehurch-in-the-Vale, an English village.
The Family Reunion
A play in verse by T.S. Eliot
The scene is a country house in the North of England, the exterior specially drawn by John Piper, the interior designed by Barry Learoyd.
Gay Rosalinda
The scene opens in Vienna in the comparative tranquillity of the Eisenstein residence. Complications arise at the ball in Prince Orlofsky's palace, but these are happily disposed of later - in the town gaol!
The general gaiety is interrupted for five-minute entr'actes before and after the ball.
The Seagull
A comedy by Anton Chekhov.
The action of the play takes place on Sorin's estate.
The Lady's Not for Burning
A comedy by Christopher Fry
The play takes place in Hebble Tyson's house. He is the Mayor of the little market town of Cool Clary, and the appearance of the characters is as much as anything, 15th century.
Men of Darkness
An English version of the play Les Nuits de la Colere by Armand Salacrou.
Adapted and produced by Royston Morley.
The action of the play takes place in Occupied France and opens in the Bazires' sitting-room in the town of Chartres.
Miss Mabel
A play by R. C. Sherriff.
The play takes place in a small town during a week in the spring.
Hobson's Choice
A Lancashire comedy by Harold Brighouse.
The scene of the play takes place in Salford, Lancashire. Period 1880
March Hares
A comedy by H. W. Gribble.
The scene is the lounge hall in the house of Mrs. Rodney and Miss Rodney, near London.
Promise of Tomorrow
A television play written and produced by Michael Barry
The story takes place in England and Scotland during recent years
Othello
by William Shakespeare
The play takes place in Venice and in a seaport in Cyprus sometime in the sixteenth century.
Hail Nero!
A comedy by Mary Stocks.
The action takes place in Nero's palace and outside a theatre in Rome in the year A.D. 64
Adventure Story
A play by Terence Rattigan.
The action extends over a period of nine years - between, from 336 B.C. to 323 B.C. - and takes place in Greece and various parts of Asia.
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