Limes from Sicily

Summary

1960 BBC production for school of Limes from Sicily by Luigi Pirandello.

Theatre play

Sicilian Limes [Lumie di Sicilia] by Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936) [more information]

Play synopsis

A young man Micuccio takes a long journey to rekindle a love with a singer whose career he started, only to discover her changed by fame and fortune, unrecognizable as the woman he spent years pining over.

Production history

Premiere: Metastasio Theatre, Rome, 1910. Translated into English by Isaac Goldberg and published in Plays of the Italian Theatre (Boston: John W. Luce and Company, 1921).

Date of transmission

Tuesday 4 October 1960

Time

2.05-2.35pm

Series

Schools

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

Rosemary Hill

Playwright

Luigi Pirandello (1867-1936)

Translator

Robert Rietty

Musician

Freddie Phillips (guitar)

Musician

Lionel Solomon (piccolo)

Singer

Doreen Murray (soprano)

Designer

Stuart Walker

Cast

Edmund Bailey	unnamed part
Kenneth Firth	unnamed part
Peter Gibbs	unnamed part
Robert Gillespie	Micuccio Bonavino
Walter Henry	unnamed part
Reginald Marsh	Ferdinando
Julia McCarthy	Dorina
Brian Moorehead	unnamed part
Marian Morley	Teresina
Nancy Nevinson	Aunt Marta

Additional details

Later transmissions

Repeated on Wednesday 5 October 1960 at 11.05am.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

Italian drama

Programme context tags

schools television programming

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 30 September 1960 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 14