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The Wednesday Play è una serie antologica britannica di spettacoli televisivi trasmessa su BBC1 per sei stagioni dall'ottobre 1964 al maggio 1970. Gli spettacoli erano solitamente opere originali scritte per la televisione, sebbene fossero presenti anche adattamenti drammatici di fiction (e occasionalmente spettacoli teatrali).
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramatic adaptations of fiction (and occasionally stage plays) also featured.
Original Air DateTitleAuthor (s)Producer28 October 1964A Crack in the IceA story by Nikolai Leskov . Dramatised by ...4 November 1964by Jean-Paul Sartre . Adapted for ...11 November 1964Pale Horse, Pale RiderEric Till18 November 1964The Big BreakerThe Wednesday Play: Created by Sydney Newman. With Edwin Brown, Neville Smith, Tony Selby, Ken Jones. Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John Hopkins.
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- 1964-09-30
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A woman is attacked in the Forest of Dean, in Dennis Potter's play set in the 1890s. All episodes of The Wednesday Play.
The BBC's Wednesday Play is synonymous with 1960s television. Its name evokes memories of sensational drama and controversy, but its range was much broader than that, encompassing many genres and styles.
The Wednesday Play was known for uncompromising dramas reflecting burning contemporary issues in a Britain undergoing massive social change. Plays like Cathy Come Home and The Big Flame, just two of Ken Loach’s nine surviving Wednesday Plays – all available in the Mediatheque – challenged the old order, while writers like David Mercer and ...
The Wednesday Play, first broadcast on 28 October 1964, started a run of single dramas that developed a reputation for controversial and ground-breaking material. It included Cathy Come Home ...
