Sunbeams in his Hat is a radio play by Louis MacNeice. It was first broadcast on the BBC Home Service on 16 July 1944[1].
Plot[]
A biographical play about Anton Chekov. Based on an earlier MacNeice feature entitled Dr. Chekhov.
Cast[]
- Frau Schmidt - Marcella Salzer[2]
- Olga Knipper - Martita Hunt
- Tchehov - Alan Wheatley
- Tchehov's Father - Ivor Barnard
- Masseur - Richard Williams
- General - Cyril Gardiner
- Nurse - Molly Rankin
- Boy in Sahalin - Malcolm Thomas
- Dorn - Gerald Case
- Tolstoy - Alexander Sarner
- Gorki - Duncan McIntyre
- 'Artem' - Harry Hutchinson
- Nemirovich-Danchenko - Charles Maunsell
- Dr. Schworer - Howard Marion-Crawford
- Russian folktunes, balalaika - Gregori Tcherniak
- Directed by Louis MacNeice