Little Moon of Alban

Summary

1967 Anglia Television production for ITV of Little Moon of Alban by James Costigan.

Theatre play

Little Moon of Alban by James Costigan [more information]

Play synopsis

Set in Ireland during the time of the Black and Tan troubles. ‘An Irish woman loves a young revolutionary who is killed in Ireland’s struggle for freedom just after World War I. She joins a semi-religious order of nurses and winds up nursing, and falling for, the English soldier who killed her former lover’ (source: http://www.playbillvault.com/Show/Detail/6932/Little-Moon-of-Alban).

Date of transmission

Thursday 18 May 1967

Time

9.40-11.05pm

Channel

ITV

Production company

Anglia Television (1959-)

Credits

Director

John Jacobs

Playwright

James Costigan

Designer

James Weatherup

Cast

David Buck	Lieut. Kenneth Boyd
Valerie Gearon	Brigid Mary
George Ghent	Sergeant
Maurice Good	Patch Keegan
Raymond Hardy	Soldier
Marie Kean	Shelagh Mangan
Carol Macready	Sister Theresa
Clive Marshall	Soldier
Peggy Marshall	Sister Servant
Donal McCann	Dennis Walsh
John McGregor	Officer
Ronald Pember	Corporal
Wensley Pithey	Dr Clive
Liam Redmond	Father Curran
Roma Tomelty	Sister Martha Kevin
Jimmy Wilson	Singer

Additional details

Play tags

Republic of Ireland, as theme or setting; wartime, as theme or setting

Print sources

Title

TV Times, 11 May 1967 (Magazine)

Linking notes

article, p. 8; illustrated listing, p. 43