Festival is an hour-long British dramatic anthology series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation and aired on the BBC from 1960 to 1969. There were a total of 148 plays, adapted from writers ranging from William Shakespeare to Samuel Beckett. Titles include Krapp's Last Tape by Beckett, Comedy of Errors by Shakespeare, Lysistrata by Aristophanes, Under Milk Wood by Dylan Thomas, Murder in the Cathedral by T.S. Eliot, and Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello.
Cast David Garfield as Organ Morgan, Dai, Alvin Cyril Cusack as Krapp, Thomas Becket, Father John Wood as Laevsky, Robert Emmet, The Speaker John Welsh as Aegeon, a merchant of Syracuse, General Marie Kean as Dante, Flower Woman Ann Bell as Katonike, Good-Deeds June Tobin as Leader of Chorus, Molly Bloom Audrey Richards as Captain Cat, Russell John Le Mesurier as de Giray, Don Bernal de la Encina Eric Thompson as Borghejm, Prisoner Peter Sallis as Captain of the Fire Brigade, Romainville Kate Binchy as Nun, Boeotian Girl
Guest stars included Judi Dench, Diane Cilento, Diana Rigg, Ian Richardson, Lee Grant, Milo O'Shea, Peter Wyngarde, and Margaret Whiting.
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