Rent Victoria Regina (1964)
3h 10min
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- Synopsis:
Patricia Routledge gives a career-best performance as Queen Victoria in this 1964 series of plays based on the celebrated collection of dramas by playwright Laurence Housman. Self-willed, obstinate, imperious and passionate...a now-familiar description of history's longest-serving female monarch but Housman's satirical tribute marked a decisive break with the tradition of the uncritical historical portrait. A Broadway hit deemed too disrespectful for public performance in Britain until the late 1930's, "Victoria Regina" is a frank portrayal of an extraordinarily complex woman, tracing her development from royal teenager to inconsolable widow at the helm of a vast empire, with all her contradictions, prejudices and unconstitutional behaviour. - Actors:
- Patricia Routledge, Max Adrian, Joachim Hansen, Geoffrey Dunn, Edward Atienza, Michael Bilton, Jolyon Booth, Kevin Brennan, John Brooking, Rosamond Burne, Geoffrey Chater, Jameson Clark, Maurice Colbourne, Barbara Couper, Nicholas Courtney, Hugh Cross, Charles Cullum, George Curzon, Julian D'Albie, Marianne Deeming
- Directors:
- Stuart Latham
- Producers:
- Peter Wildeblood
- Writers:
- Laurence Housman, Peter Wildeblood
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Dramas
