Love in Albania

Summary

1952 BBC live studio production of Eric Linklater’s comedy Love in Albania.

Theatre play

Love in Albania by Eric Linklater [more information]

Play synopsis

Comedy. ‘Scene: a London flat during the last war. Flora, the Lawns’ housekeeper, has brought home the famous author and traveller, Will Ramillies, fresh from service with the Albanian guerrillas, and they set the scene for the charming Susan Lawn and her prim husband, Robert... Meanwhile, lurking on the stairs, there is a highly eccentric addition to the party, Dohda, an Albanian-born sergeant of the U.S. Military Police. Sergeant Dohda has come pursuing Ramillies for news of his daughter Draga. a beautiful fellow-partisan of RamilIies... (Lionel Hale, ‘A comic conversation-piece’, Radio Times, 4 April 1952, p. 42)

Production history

Performed at the St James’s Theatre, London, in 1949.

Date of transmission

Sunday 6 April 1952

Time

8.30-10.05pm

Channel

BBC Television

Production company

BBC

Credits

Producer

W. P. Rilla

Playwright

Eric Linklater

Sets / Settings

Barry Learoyd

Cast

James Donald	Will Ramillies
Peter Dyneley	Sergeant Dohda
Vari Falconer	Flora MacIver
Eleanor Summerfield	Susan Lawn
Richard Wattis	Robert Lawn

Additional details

Origination

Live from studio

Vision original

Monochrome

Later transmissions

Presented again at 7.30pm on Thursday 10 April 1952.

Extant status

No archival copy is known to exist.

Print sources

Title

Radio Times, 4 April 1952 (Magazine)

Linking notes

listing, photograph and article by Lionel Hale, p. 42