Concept and creative process
‘Play of the Month’ was a long-running anthology series of one-off classic and contemporary stage plays by major authors, transmitted monthly from 1965 to 1979. The series regularly featured prominent British stage actors who later became well-known faces on British television. The title sequence, filmed on a rostrum camera, was a series of expressive rubber masks, with each one being removed by a hand revealing a further mask beneath. The removal of the final mask revealed the series logo in white on black.