RICHARD OF BORDEAUX
JORDON DAVIOT’S Richard of Bordeaux, the BBC World Theatre play to be broadcast from 1Y¥C, 3YC and 4YC next week, was one of the outstanding successes of the London theatre of 1932-33. It marked a notable step in the
progress of the costume play from cloak. and dagger melodramatics to an honest attempt to analyse the minds of people of a past age and view their motives and _passions in relation to our own. London flocked to see the
play, which was put on by John Gielgud at the New Theatre with himself in the Jeading role. It was magnificently mounted and splendidly acted, and it left in the minds of those who saw it a memorable picture of the young Richard II, charming and gracious in youth, petulant in controversy and dignified in adversity. In the BBC radio adaptation, Sir John Gielgud plays the part he made famous. The play is in two parts. The first covers the years before 1389 when the young king was planning to remove his uncles from power, and the second follows the course of his revenge upon them. It will be heard from 1YC at 7.30 p.m. on February 24, from. 4YC at 8.0 p.m. on February 25, and from 3YC at 9.30 p.m. on February 27.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 18
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217RICHARD OF BORDEAUX New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 18
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