Festival (TV series)

Festival is an hour-long UK dramatic anthology series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and aired on the BBC from 1963–64.[1] There were a total of 32 episodes adapted from writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett.[2][3] 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.[2][4][5][6][7]

Stars included Judi Dench, Cyril Cusack, Diane Cilento, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Lee Grant, Milo O'Shea and Margaret Whiting.[6][4][2][7]

References
  1. "Festival (TV series) (1963)". BFI.
  2. "Festival: The Comedy of Errors". January 1, 1964. p. 35 – via BBC Genome.
  3. "Festival presenting: Krapp's Last Tape". November 13, 1963. p. 43 – via BBC Genome.
  4. "Festival: Lysistrata". January 15, 1964. p. 41 – via BBC Genome.
  5. "Under Milk Wood (1964)". BFI.
  6. "Making trails for BBC TV - a director's story". BBC. November 17, 2017.
  7. "Six Characters in Search of an Author (1964)". BFI.
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