persuades him: How little you can understand! I loved His life not his death. And now we can give his death The power of life. Not horrible: wonderful! Dynamene, Tegeus and Doto drink a toast to the memory of Virilius as the play ends. Revivals and adaptations Revivals A Phoenix Too Frequent was revived at the Arts Theatre, London on 20 November 1946. Hannen again played Dynamene, Joan White played Doto and Paul Scofield played Tegeus. The director was Noel Willman. The production ran for 64 performances. A production directed by John Crockett toured Britain in 1950 and 1951, presenting the play in a double bill with Chekhov's farce The Proposal. The play was staged at the Fulton Theatre, Broadway on 26 April 1950, and closed after five performances. Nina Foch played Dynamene, Richard Derr Tegeus and Vicki Cummings Doto. According to Emil Roy in a 1968 study of Fry, the early withdrawal of the piece was "largely because of faulty acting" and being coupled in a double bill with an unsuitable companion piece. A later American production was staged by Writers Theatre in 2001, directed by Michael W. Halberstam with Karen Janes Woditsch as Dynamene, Sean Fortunato as Tegeus and Maggie Carney as Doto. A planned 2020 production by American Players Theatre was postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Television adaptations The first television broadcast was in June 1946 on BBC Television, based on the original Mercury stage production, featuring Hannen, Summerfield and Wheatley. There were further BBC television versions in 1951, featuring Jessie Evans, Diana Graves and John Justin, 1955, featuring George Cole, Jessie Evans and Noelle Middleton, and 1972, featuring Lynn Farleigh as Dynamene, William Gaunt as Tegeus and Julia Sutton as Doto. In 1955 a version was broadcast on West German television. The cast comprised Sigrid Marquardt, Käte Jaenicke and Günther König. The following year a production was broadcast on Danish television. A version aired in 1957 on Australian television, on the ABC at a time when Australian drama production was rare. Produced by Paul O'Loughlin, it aired live in Sydney on 24 July 1957, and a recording was later broadcast in Melbourne. The cast comprised Dinah Shearing as Dynamene, James Condon as Tegeus and Audrey Teesdale as Doto. Between 1959 and 1966 adaptations were transmitted by television stations in Switzerland (1959, featuring Ingeborg Luescher, Beatrice Schweizer and Wolfgang Schwarz), Finland (1960), West Germany (1963, featuring