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The Wednesday Play: On the Eve of Publication

on BBC One London

by David Mercer
Starring Leo McKern as Robert Kelvin and Thorley Walters as Holland
with Michele Dotrice as Emma

The dramatic impetus to tonight's intriguing and mysterious play is provided by the memory and fantasies of Robert Kelvin, an illustrious and ageing novelist. These are triggered off by the love that Emma, a beautiful young girl almost forty years his junior, is offering him. His inability to respond any more to Emma than to the other two women in his life adds all the more to the agony of the play's powerful climax.
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Contributors

Writer:
David Mercer
Designer:
Natasha Kroll
Producer:
Graeme McDonald
Director:
Alan Bridges
Robert Kelvin:
Leo McKern
Holland:
Thorley Walters
Emma:
Michele Dotrice
Barbara:
Rosalind Knight
Father:
Alan Cullen
Mother:
Rose Howlett
Grandfather:
Robert Wallace
Ruth:
Kay Newman
Jane:
Pauline Devaney
Dinner guest:
Mischa de la Motte
Dinner guest:
Geraldine Gwyther
Dinner guest:
Alfred Hoffman
Dinner guest:
Winifred Hill
Dinner guest:
Mervyn Prior
Dinner guest:
John Roden
Dinner guest:
Nova Sainte-Claire
Dinner guest:
Hira Talfrey

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