A Night Out (play)
Harold Pinter's television breakthrough on Armchair Theatre.
A Night Out is a play by Harold Pinter, first broadcast on BBC radio in 1960. Its television adaptation on ABC Weekend TV's Armchair Theatre in April 1960 became Pinter's first major television success, reaching 6.4 million households, a record for a single television drama at the time. The story follows Albert Stokes, a young office worker living with his mother, after he is falsely accused of groping a woman at an office party.
Quick Facts
- Playwright
- Harold Pinter
- First performance
- BBC Third Programme, 1 March 1960
- Television broadcast
- ABC Weekend TV's Armchair Theatre, 24 April 1960
- Television director
- Philip Saville
- Television producer
- Sydney Newman
- Television designer
- Assheton Gorton
- Television viewership
- 6.4 million households
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