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Lope De Vega - Actors, Or Playing For Real

Networks
BBC (as its archives name them)
Heard
1983
Episodes
1
Language
English

Lope de Vega - Actors: or Playing for Real (BBC R3 1983-04-03)

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First broadcast: Sun 3rd Apr 1983, 19:00 on BBC Radio 3

Rebroadcast: Thu 29th Sep 1983, 19:30 on BBC Radio 3

freely adapted by Peter Barnes from Evelyn Rishburn's translation of "Lo Fingido Verdadero" by Lope de Vega

with Denis Quilley, Timothy West, Ann Beach, Harold Innocent, Tina Marian, Peter Woodthorpe.

Lope de Vega is said to have written 1,500 plays of which about 400 have survived. This black comedy chronicles the rise of the Emperor Diocletian and the unlikely conversion and martyrdom of the Roman actor Genesius - now the patron saint of all actors.

Contributors

Adapter: Peter Barnes

Translator: Evelyn Rishburn

Author: Lope de Vega

Composer/Conductor: Stephen Boxer

Director: Ian Cotterell

Marcius: James Bryce

Curius: James Kerry

Maximian: Sean Arnold

Diocletian: Timothy West

Camilla: Ann Beach

Aurelius: Ronald Baddiley

Numertan: David Peart

Aper: Patrick Barr

Carinus: Alan Rickman

Cello: Alex Jennings

Rosarda: Frances Jeater

Genesius: Denis Quilley

Lelius: Edward Cast

Lentiulus: Harold Innocent

Pinabelus: Peter Woodthorpe

Patricius: Michael Bilton

Marcella: Tina Marian

Fabriclus: Timothy Bateson

Octavius: Stephen Boxer

Soldier: Stuart Organ

[Actress]: Madi Head

[Actress]: Hilda Schroder

[Actress]: Jean Trend

Episodes, in broadcast order

  1. Actors or Playing for Real (BBC R3

    · 1 h 52 min

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  1. Lope De Vega - Actors, Or Playing For Real (BBC R3 1983)

    Listeners' uploads · Lope de Vega, Peter Barnes · 1 episode here · archive.org

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