A Play in Three Acts by August Strindberg
Adapted for broadcasting from E. Classen 's translation by Marianne Helweg
Characters in the Play (by permission of the Old Vic) (by permission of John Gielgud )
Production by Peter Creswell
The play was written in 1901, but for practical purposes the action may be regarded as present day. It is the spring of the year. The scene is a living-room in Mrs. Heyst's home, the windows of which look over a garden giving on to the street of a provincial Swedish town.
The music, selected from Haydn's Sieben Worte des Erlosers, will be chosen from:
Introduction, Act I (Maundy Thursday)-Maestoso Adagio
Prelude to Act II (Good Friday)-
Largo, No. 1. Pater dimitte illis
Prelude to Act III (Easter Eve)-
No. 5. Adagio and will be played by a section of the Boyd Neel String Orchestra