by Virginia Woolf
Dramatised by Liane Aukin
Produced by David Spenser
Broadcast Sunday 5th October 1980, BBC Radio 3
Duration: 2 hours, 15 minutes
160/44; 155 MB total; sound quality fair
Encode notes: This encode, divided is 2 parts, is patched together from multiple sources. There is background noise after the 38-minute mark and the sound is a little dull.
The play is set on a day in mid-June 1939 where an English village is holding its annual pageant, a series of scenes from English history. War is imminent. The story weaves together the musings and conversations of the disparate characters who have come together at Pointz Hall.
"Between the Acts" was published in the spring of 1941, shortly after Woolf had taken her own life.
Miss La Trobe...........................................Sarah Badel
Lucy Swithin.......................................Sylvia Coleridge
Bart Oliver.............................................Robert Lang
Giles Oliver......................................Terrence Hardiman
Isa.....................................................Gemma Jones
Mrs Manressa..........................................Moira Redmond
William Dodge......................................Christopher Good
Mrs Lyn Jones.............................................Nan Munro
Mrs Wintrop..............................................Eva Stuart
Mrs Springett...........................................Peggy Paige
Reverend Streatfield....................................Philip Voss
In the Pageant:
The Old Crone/Lady Harpy Harraden......................Sheila Grant
Sir Speniel Lilyliver.................................Peter Baldwin
Queen Elizabeth.........................................Margot Boyd
Mrs Hardcastle...........................................Josie Kidd
Mr Budge..................................................John Bott
Eleanor and Carinthia...............................Elizabeth Rider
Edgar and Ferdinand....................................Philip Sully
Flavinda...............................................Sonia Fraser
Albert....................................................John Bull
Taking Part: John Church, Lolly Cockerell, Graham Faulkner, Godfrey Kenton, Gordon Reid, Elaine White.
Songs composed by John Bull.
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