The Cure for Love

Summary: 1954 live BBC studio production of Walter Greenwood’s comedy of a returning soldier, The Cure for Love.
Theatre play: The Cure for Love by Walter Greenwood [more information]
Play synopsis: Comedy. ‘Sergeant Jack Hardacre left a safe job to join the Army in the recent war; he fought with the Eighth Army from Alamein to Italy, he won three medals, he was wounded... [Back in] Lancashire, his mother, Sarah Hardacre, would never think of letting her son know how proud she is of him ... And the neighbours are all too ready to start managing the affairs of their returning hero; his particular problem here is that before going away, Jack had become engaged to Janey Jenkins. What with Janey’s persistence and her pressing mother, Jack would probably take the line of least resistance as he had done before, but for two facts. One is that in the Army he acquired a mind of his own; the other is that in his absence his mother acquired a pretty lodger from the south called Milly.' (Peter Forster, Radio Times, 22 October 1954, p. 14.)
Production history: Premiered at the Westminster Theatre, London, in July 1945.
Date of transmission: Sunday 24 October 1954
Time: 8.30-10.10pm
Channel: BBC Television
Production company: BBC

Producer

Andrew Osborn

Playwright

Walter Greenwood

Designer

Richard R. Greenough

Cast

Origination: Live from studio
Vision original: Monochrome
Later transmissions: Presented again at 9.15pm on Thursday 28 October 1954.
Extant status: No archival copy is known to exist.
Play tags: comedy; military / army / navy / air-force; Second World War, as theme or setting

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