Theatre Night is the umbrella title under which adaptations of classic and contemporary stage plays were usually broadcast on BBC 2 between 15 September 1985 and 21 July 1990.
Theatre Night | |
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Genre | Stage drama |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English (including translations) |
No. of series | 5 |
No. of episodes | 28 |
Production | |
Production company | BBC (some co-productions) |
Release | |
Original network | BBC 2 |
Original release | 15 September 1985 (1985-09-15) – 21 July 1990 (1990-07-21) |
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Play of the Month |
Followed by | Performance |
The main source for compiling this list was the BFI Film and TV Database. The website's master list is here. IMDb was also used, but some significant errors were found; these are noted,
Legend: Se = Season; Ep = Episode
Se | Ep | Title | Author | Producer/ Director |
Performers | UK Transmission date |
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1 | 1 | Lady Windermere's Fan[1] | Oscar Wilde | Louis Marks (p); Tony Smith (d) |
Helena Little, Tim Woodward, Stephanie Turner, Kenneth Cranham, James Saxon, Geoff Morrell |
15 September 1985 |
1 | 2 | The Father | August Strindberg | Louis Marks (p); Kenneth Ives (d) |
Colin Blakely, Dorothy Tutin, Irene Handl, Edward Fox, Robert Lang |
22 September 1985 |
1 | 3 | Absent Friends | Alan Ayckbourn | Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Simpson (d) |
Tom Courtenay, Julia McKenzie, Dinsdale Landen, Hywel Bennett, Maureen Lipman |
29 September 1985 |
1 | 4 | Thunder Rock | Robert Ardrey | Louis Marks (p); Mike Vardy (d) |
Charles Dance, Anna Massey, Paul Copley, Kathleen Byron, David de Keyser, Garrick Hagon, Graham Crowden, Burnell Tucker |
6 October 1985 |
1 | 5 | Playboy of the West Indies | J. M. Synge (play The Playboy of the Western World); Mustapha Matura (adaptation) |
Alan Shallcross (p); Nicholas Kent (d) |
Joan Ann Maynard, Rudolph Walker, Jim Findley, Ram John Holder, Stefan Kalipha, Frank Singuineau |
13 October 1985 |
1 | 6 | Trelawny of the 'Wells' | Arthur Wing Pinero | Louis Marks & Cedric Messina (p); Tom Kingdom (d) |
Michael Hordern, Nicholas Jones, Avril Angers, Samantha Bond, Patricia Brake, Philip Locke, Vivian Pickles, Linda Polan, Arthur Cox |
20 October 1985 |
1 | 7 | Molière | Mikhail Bulgakov (play); Dusty Hughes (adaptation)[2] |
Cedric Messina (p); Bill Alexander (d) |
Antony Sher, David Bradley, Penelope Beaumont, Sylvia Coleridge, David Troughton, Christopher Bowen |
27 October 1985 |
1 | 8 | Tartuffe | Molière (play) Christopher Hampton (translation) |
Cedric Messina (p); Bill Alexander (d) |
Antony Sher, Nigel Hawthorne, Alison Steadman, Sylvia Coleridge David Bradley, Ian Talbot, Stephanie Fayerman |
3 November 1985[3] |
2 | 1 | The Devil's Disciple[4][5] | George Bernard Shaw | Shaun Sutton (p); David Jones (d) |
Mike Gwilym, Ian Richardson, Elizabeth Spriggs, Patrick Stewart, Patrick Newell, John Cater, Patrick Godfrey, Larry Lamb, Benjamin Whitrow |
17 May 1987 |
2 | 2 | What the Butler Saw | Joe Orton | Shaun Sutton (p); Barry Davis (d) |
Dinsdale Landen, Tessa Peake-Jones, Timothy West, Prunella Scales |
24 May 1987 |
2 | 3 | Miss Julie | August Strindberg | Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Simpson (d) |
Janet McTeer, Patrick Malahide |
31 May 1987 |
2 | 4 | Make and Break | Michael Frayn | Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Darlow |
Robert Hardy, Judi Dench, David Graham, Martin Jarvis, Wolf Kahler, Arnold Lee |
7 June 1987 |
2 | 5 | Ghosts[6][7] | Henrik Ibsen | Louis Marks (p); Elijah Moshinsky (d) |
Judi Dench, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Gambon, Freddie Jones, Natasha Richardson |
14 June 1987 |
2 | 6 | The Birthday Party | Harold Pinter | Rosemary Hill (p); Kenneth Ives (d) |
Joan Plowright, Harold Pinter, Kenneth Cranham, Colin Blakely, Julie Walters, Robert Lang |
21 June 1987 |
3 | 1 | The Miser | Molière | Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Simpson (d) |
Nigel Hawthorne, Jim Broadbent, Kate Buffery, Janet Suzman, Christopher Benjamin, Ron Cook, John Gill, Simon Sutton, Cyril Shaps |
1 April 1988 |
3 | 2 | The Master Builder[7] | Henrik Ibsen | Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Darlow (d) |
Leo McKern, Jane Lapotaire, Sebastian Shaw, Miranda Richardson, Simon Rouse |
15 May 1988 |
3 | 3 | The Importance of Being Earnest[1][8] | Oscar Wilde | Shaun Sutton (p); Stuart Burge (d) |
Paul McGann, Rupert Frazer, Amanda Redman, Natalie Ogle, Gemma Jones, Alec McCowen, Joan Plowright, John Woodnutt, Peter Copley |
29 May 1988[9] |
3 | 4 | The Rivals | Richard Brinsley Sheridan | Shaun Sutton (p); Elijah Moshinsky (d) |
Donald Sinden, Sheila Hancock, Michael Maloney; Patrick Ryecart, Amanda Redman, Ronald Pickup, Suzanne Burden |
5 June 1988 |
3 | 5 | Strife | John Galsworthy | Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Darlow (d) |
Peter Vaughan, Timothy West, Kate Buffery, Anna Calder-Marshall, Tenniel Evans, Andrew Burt, Trevor Cooper Bernard Archard, John Nettleton, John Woodnutt, Patsy Smart |
12 June 1988 |
4 | 1 | Arms and the Man[5] | George Bernard Shaw | Shaun Sutton (p); James Cellan Jones (d) |
Helena Bonham Carter, Kika Markham, Pip Torrens, Dinsdale Landen, Patsy Kensit, Nicolas Chagrin |
16 April 1989 |
4 | 2 | The Contractor | David Storey | Shaun Sutton (p); Barry Davis (d) |
Timothy West, Kenneth Cranham, Jimmy Jewel, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Gawn Grainger |
23 April 1989 |
4 | 3 | The Winslow Boy[10] | Terence Rattigan | Shaun Sutton (p); Michael Darlow (d) |
Rosemary Leach, Gordon Jackson, Gwen Watford, Emma Thompson, Ian Richardson, David Troughton |
30 April 1989 |
4 | 4 | Knuckle | David Hare | Tim Ironside-Wood (p); Colin Ludlowe (p); Paul Marcus (p); Moira Armstrong (d) |
Tim Roth, Emma Thompson, Bernard Hepton, Peter Hawkins, James Appleby, John Joyce |
7 May 1989 |
4 | 5 | Metamorphosis[11] | Franz Kafka (short story); Steven Berkoff (adaptation) |
Martyn Auty (p); Jim Goddard (d) |
Tim Roth, Steven Berkoff, Linda Marlowe, Saskia Reeves, Gary Olsen |
21 May 1989[12] |
4 | 6 | Benefactors | Michael Frayn | No producer credited; Barry Davis (d) |
Barbara Flynn, Michael Kitchen, Alan Rickman, Harriet Walter, Howard Cooke |
28 May 1989 |
5 | 1 | Othello[13] | William Shakespeare | Greg Smith (p); Trevor Nunn (d) |
Willard White, Ian McKellen, Imogen Stubbs, Zoë Wanamaker, Sean Baker, Michael Grandage, Clive Swift |
23 June 1990 |
5 | 2 | Bingo: Scenes of Money and Death | Edward Bond | Tim Ironside-Wood (p); Don Taylor (d) |
David Suchet, Kenneth Haigh, Peter Jeffrey, Brenda Bruce |
30 June 1990 |
5 | 3[14] | Pentecost | Stewart Parker (writer); Lesley Bruce (adaptation) |
No producer credited; Nicholas Kent (d) |
Dearbhla Molloy, Adrian Dunbar, Barbara Adair, Michelle Fairley, Sam Dale |
14 July 1990 |
5 | 4 | Iphigenia at Aulis | Euripides | Louis Marks (p); Don Taylor |
Roy Marsden, Fiona Shaw, Imogen Boorman, Eric Allan, Tim Woodward, Jason Durr, Tessa Peake-Jones |
21 July 1990 |