UK, 1936
25m
broadcast live, black and white, 5:4
mono, English
A British fantasy television special. It was broadcast live and never recorded.
Plot Summary
An adaptation of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ ballet retelling the Biblical story of Job.
Credits
Crew
BBC
Produced by: Ninette de Valois
Presentation Producer: Stephen Thomas
[Written] By: Geoffrey Keynes
Music by: Ralph Vaughan Williams
Costume Designer: Gwendoline Raverat
Masks: Hedley Briggs
Choregrapher: Ninette de Valois
Cast
Maurice Brook (Job)
Joy Newton (Job’s wife)
Robert Helpmann (Satan)
William Chappell (Elihu/The Three Messengers)
Richard Ellis (The Three Messengers/Pestilence)
Leslie Edwards (The Three Messengers)
Peggy Melliss [real name: Peggy Mellis], Wenda Horsburgh, Sheila McCarthy (The Three Comforters)
Claude Newman (War)
Michael Somes (Famine)
