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THE MARRIAGE

on BBC Radio 3

by Witold Gombrowicz
English version by LOUIS IRIBARNE
Music composed by HUMPHREY SEARLE
Frank Finlay , Mary Morris Maurice Denham with Christopher Guinee Angela Pleasence
A young soldier returns from the war to find the home, the parents. and the fiancee he left behind strangely transformed as if in a dream. Their words and actions shift without reason or transition to extremes. But the dreamer, too, in his turn is changed by the outside world he himself dreamed. ' Everything in the play creates itself, people create one another, and the whole pushes forward toward unknown solutions.'
A stirring major work by this contemporary Polish writer, The Marriage employs verse, stylised speech, chorus, and parody. Though lately produced in Paris and Berlin, this, in the recent translation, is its first performance in English.
GRETTA Gouriet , MARGARET WOLFIT
Music played by members of the SINFONIA OF LONDON conducted by the composer
Produced by H. B. FORTUIN
Second broadcast

Contributors

Composed By:
Humphrey Searle
Composed By:
Frank Finlay
Composed By:
Mary Morris
Composed By:
Maurice Denham
Unknown:
Christopher Guinee
Unknown:
Angela Pleasence
Unknown:
Gretta Gouriet
Unknown:
Margaret Wolfit
Produced By:
H. B. Fortuin
Henry, Son and Prince:
Frank Finlay
Johnny, Friend and Courtier:
Christopher Guinee
Frank, Father and King:
Maurice Denham
Katherine, Mother and Queen:
Mary Morris
Molly, Servant and Princess:
Angela Pleasence
Drunkard:
Felix Felton
Chancellor:
Lockwood West
Chamberlain:
Frederick Treves
Chief of Police:
Francis de Wolff
Bishop Pandulf:
James Thomason
Dignitary, Traitor:
Michael Deacon
Drunkards, dignitaries, courtiers,:
Henchmen Alaric Cotter
GODFREY KENTON,:
James Thomason
FREDERICK TREVES,:
Peter Tuddenham
Ladies at Court:
Kate Coleridge

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