Festival (1963)
Plot.
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
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Cast & Crew.
David Garfield
Alvin / Dai / Organ Morgan
Cyril Cusack
Father / Krapp / Thomas Becket
John Wood
Laevsky / Robert Emmet / The Speaker
John Welsh
Aegeon, a merchant of Syracuse / General
Marie Kean
Dante / Flower Woman
Ann Bell
Good-Deeds / Katonike
Aubrey Richards
Captain Cat / Russell
June Tobin
Leader of Chorus / Molly Bloom
John Le Mesurier
Don Bernal de la Encina / De Giray
Eric Thompson
Borghejm / Prisoner
Eric Thompson
Borghejm / Prisoner
Prudence FitzGerald
Director
Henric Hirsch
Director
Alan Bromly
Director
Peter Luke
Producer
Aristophanes
Writer
Allan McClelland
Writer
James Joyce
Writer
Patric Dickinson
Writer
Noël Coward
Writer
Marc Brandel
Writer
Samuel Beckett
Writer
Diane Cilento
Lysistrata
Alec Clunes
Magistrate
Frederick Jaeger
Kinesias
Priscilla Morgan
Myrrhine
Esmond Knight
Chorus
Elizabeth Spriggs
Lampito
Kate Binchy
Boeotian Girl
Shusha Assar
Corinthian Girl
Karin McCarthy
Athenian Girl
Patsy Smart
Chorus
Details.
This TV Show Is About.
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Wiki.
Festival is an hour-long UK dramatic anthology series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and aired on the BBC from 1963–64. There were a total of 32 episodes adapted from writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett. Titles include Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett, Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot, and Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello.Stars included Judi Dench, Cyril Cusack, Diane Cilento, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Lee Grant, Milo O'Shea and Margaret Whiting.