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A Provincial Life

A Provincial Life

A play by PETER GILL based on the story My Life by ANTON CHEKHOV

BBC Radio transmission, Monday 24 August 1965

with Ian McKellen, Eleanor Bron, Joseph O’Conor

Place:

A Russian Province in the 1890s.

Cast in order of speaking:

Kleopatra, Misail’s sister
SHEILA GRANT
Misail
IAN MCKELLEN
Alexander Pavlovitch Poloznev, his father, an architect
JOSEPH O’CONOR
Anyuta
SHIRLEY DIXON
Ivan
HUGH DICKSON
Andrey Ivanov, a contractor
JOHN HOLLIS
Vladimir Ivanov Blagovo, a doctor
DENYS HAWTHORNE
Victor Ivanov Dolzhikov, an engineer
GEOFFREY MATTHEWS
A Shopkeeper
LESLIE HERITAGE
A Workman
PETER TUDDENHAM
Marya
ELEANOR BRON
Prokofy, a butcher
PETER PACEY
Karpovna, Misail’s old nurse
KATHLEEN HELME
Madame Azhoglna
GLADYS SPENCER
The Governor of the Province
JOHN BRYNING
Produced by
JOHN TYDEMAN

(Joseph O'Conor is in The Heretic at the Duke of York’s Theatre, London)

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