The Bacchae
15 October & 22 October 1962, ITV
Role: Dionysus

The BBC catalogue indicates that this production was a dramatization for schools of the Greek tragedy The Bacchae by Euripides.

In Euripides' tale, Dionysus is a young god, angry that his mortal family -- the royal house of Cadmus -- has denied him a place of honor as a deity. 

As the story unfolds, The Bacchae dramatizes the conflict between the emotional and rational sides of the human psyche. When the people of Thebes deny the existence of the god Dionysus, he punishes them by unleashing the full force of female sexuality, thereby destroying social order and driving them to certain tragedy.

The Bacchae text // Wikipedia entry