Wide Sargasso Sea
StarringRafe Spall
Rebecca Hall
Nina Sosanya
Victoria Hamilton
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes1
Production
ProducerKudos Film & Television
Running time90 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC Four
Release9 October 2006 (2006-10-09)

Wide Sargasso Sea is a British television adaptation of Jean Rhys's 1966 novel of the same name.

Produced by Kudos Film & Television for BBC Wales, the one-off 90-minute drama was first broadcast on digital television channel BBC Four on 9 October 2006.[1] It was repeated on BBC One on Sunday, 22 October 2006, the week following the conclusion of BBC One's adaptation of Jane Eyre, to which Wide Sargasso Sea is a prequel.[2]

The adaptation was scripted by playwright Stephen Greenhorn, produced by Elwen Rowlands and directed by Brendan Maher.[3] It starred Rebecca Hall as Antoinette Cosway and Rafe Spall as Rochester.[4]

Plot summary

See also: Wide Sargasso Sea § Plot summary

Cast

See also

References

  1. ^ "Wide Sargasso Sea". 9 October 2006. p. 79 – via BBC Genome.
  2. ^ "BBC Four - Wide Sargasso Sea".
  3. ^ "Wide Sargasso Sea (2006)". BFI. Archived from the original on 2 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Wide Sargasso Sea (2006) - Brendan Maher, Brian Maher | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related | AllMovie" – via allmovie.com.

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