The Marriage

Produced by H. B. Fortuin

Music composed and conducted by Humphrey Searle
Written by Witold Gombrowicz, Louis Iribarne (English version)

Broadcast: Fri 21st March 1969
BBC Radio 3

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• Henry, Son and Prince . . . . . . . . . . . Frank Finlay
  Johnny, Friend and Courtier . . . . . . . . . . . Christopher Guimee
  Frank, Father and King . . . . . . . . . . . Maurice Denham
  Katherine, Mother and Queen . . . . . . . . . . . Mary Morris
  Molly, Servant and Princess . . . . . . . . . . . Angela Pleasence
  Drunkard . . . . . . . . . . . Felix Felton
  Chancellor . . . . . . . . . . . Lockwood West
  Chamberlain . . . . . . . . . . . Frederick Treves
  Chief of Police . . . . . . . . . . . Francis de Wolff
  Bishop Pandulf . . . . . . . . . . . James Thomason
  Dignitary, Traitor . . . . . . . . . . . Michael Deacon
  
  Drunkards, dignitaries, courtiers, henchmen:
  Alaric Cotter
  Godfrey Kenton
  James Thomason
  Frederick Treves
  Peter Tuddenham
  
  Ladies at Court:
  Kate Coleridge
  Gretta Gouriet
  Margaret Wolfit
  
  Music played by members of the Sinfonia Of London
  
  

  A young soldier returns from the war to find the home, the parents and the fiancee he left behind strangely transformed as if in a dream. Their words and actions shift without reason or transition to extremes. But the dreamer, too, in his turn is changed by the outside world he himself dreamed.
  
  "Everything in the play creates itself, people create one another, and the whole pushes forward toward unknown solutions."
  
  First performance in English
  
  Radio Times, March 1969