Romantic Chapter

Summary

1957 BBC production of Romantic Chapter by Aldo de Benedetti.

Theatre play

Romantic Chapter by Aldo de Benedetti (1892-1970) [more information]

Play synopsis

The action of the play passes in a flat which is to be let in a fashionable quarter of Rome.

Production history

Staged, in an adaptation by Robert Rietty, at the Queen’s Theatre, Hornchurch in September 1956, but possibly elsewhere, in Italian, earlier.

Date of transmission

Thursday 17 January 1957

Time

8.15-9.30pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Director

Gerard Glaister

Producer

Alan Bromly

Adapted for the Stage by

Robert Rietty (into English)

Playwright

Aldo de Benedetti (1892-1970)

Designer

Guy Sheppard

Cast

Alfred Burke	Philip
Donald Churchill	A Bridegroom
Ann Croft	A Wife
Jean Hardwicke	Valeria
Carole Lorimer	A Bride
Annabelle [or Annabel] Maule	Isabel
Barbara Murray	Renata
Anthony Newlands	Dinno Moriani
Anthony Nicholls	Charles
Charles Lloyd Pack	Francesco
Milo Sperber	Composer
Peter Wayn	A Husband

Additional details

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Play tags

Italian drama; Italy, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 11 January 1957 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, p. 38; article, p. 39