Festival is an hour-long UK dramatic anthology series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and aired on the BBC from 1960 to 1969. There were a total of 148 plays, 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.
Contents
Cast
David Garfield as Organ Morgan, Dai, Alvin
Cyril Cusack as Krapp, Thomas Becket, Father
John Wood as Laevsky, Robert Emmet, The Speaker
John Welsh as Aegeon, a merchant of Syracuse, General
Marie Kean as Dante, Flower Woman
Ann Bell as Katonike, Good-Deeds
June Tobin as Leader of Chorus, Molly Bloom
Audrey Richards as Captain Cat, Russell
John Le Mesurier as de Giray, Don Bernal de la Encina
Eric Thompson as Borghejm, Prisoner
Peter Sallis as Captain of the Fire Brigade, Romainville
Kate Binchy as Nun, Boeotian Girl
Guest stars
included Judi Dench, Diane Cilento, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Lee Grant, Milo O'Shea, Peter Wyngarde, and Margaret Whiting.