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Sunday-Night Theatre presents: Pillars of Society

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by Henrik Ibsen
English adaptation for television by Max Faber
[Starring] John McCallum with Valerie White

The action takes place in Carsten Bernick's house in a small Norwegian coast-town during four consecutive summer days in the 1870s.
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Contributors

Author:
Henrik Ibsen
Adapted by:
Max Faber
Producer:
Stephen Harrison
Designer:
Guy Sheppard
Carsten Bernick, a shipbuilder:
John McCallum
Betty Bernick, his wife:
Margaret Vines
Johan Tonnesen, her younger brother:
Michael Warre
Hilmar Tonnesen, her cousin:
David Markham
Lona Hessel, her elder stepsister:
Valerie White
Olaf, Bernick's son:
Colin Gibson
Marta Bernick's sister:
Maureen Pryor
Dina Dorf:
Norah Gorsen
Krant Bernick's head clerk:
Gerald Cross
Aune, Bernick's foreman:
Beckett Bould
Rerlund, a schoolmaster:
Charles Lloyd Pack
Rummel, a merchant:
Wensley Pithey
Mrs. Rummel, his wife:
Nan Munro
Mrs. Lynge, a doctor's wife:
Ilona Ference
Vigeland, a shipowner:
John Dunbar
Sandstad, a shipowner:
Jonathan Field

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