Time Remembered

Summary

1957 Associated Television production of Léocadia by Jean Anouilh, under the title Time Remembered.

Theatre play

Time Remembered [Léocadia] by Jean Anouilh (1910-1987) [more information]

Play synopsis

A fairy-tale comedy in which Amanda, a young milliner, is called upon by a romantic old Duchess to help her love-lorn nephew Prince Albert Troubiscoi to get over the death of the young ballerina Léocadia, with whom he has been in love for three days.

Production history

Théâtre de la Michodière, Paris, 28 November 1940. First presented in London in 1954.

Date of transmission

Wednesday 3 April 1957

Time

8.00-9.30pm

Series

Play of the Week

Channel

ITV

Production company

Associated Television (ATV, 1955-1982)

Credits

Director

Lionel Harris

Producer

Lionel Harris

Playwright

Jean Anouilh (1910-1987)

Translator

Patricia Moyes

Cast

Norman Bird	Taxi Driver
Wilfrid Brambell	Landlord
Paul Daneman	Prince
Howell Davies	Gillie
[J. B.] Stringer Davis	Butler
Geoffrey Dunn	The Head Waiter
Peter Gray	Lord Hector
Timothy Grey	Waiter / Gypsy
Esther Lawrence	Cloakroom Attendant
Natasha Parry	Amanda
William Redmond	Ice Cream Man
Margaret Rutherford	Duchess

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

comedy

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 29 March 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, pp. 6-7; listing, p. 19