Albertina, by Howard Barker
BBC Radio 3: The Sunday Play
Broadcast: Sunday 13th June 1999 @ 7:30 p.m.
In Howard Barker's play, subtitled 'The 20 Duologues', the Bishop of Albertina, a tiny state in old Europe, has proposed to Rocklaw, the
town's intellectual, that all undesirables should be carried off on a Ship of Fools. But Rocklaw is plagued by jealousy when his wife
follows her lover on board.
With Nicholas Le Prevost [Grodiska, an actor], Juliet Stevenson [Lyback, a wife of Albertina], Ian McDiarmid (Almut, the Bishop of
Albertina], Robert Glenister [Rocklaw, an intellectual], Eleanor Tremain [Achna, a former nun of Albertina], Bill Stewart [Brun, a
convicted murderer of Albertina], Gavin Muir [Banes, a begger of Albertina], Nigel Anthony [Tobigan, an adulterer of Albertina], Stephen
Thorne [Dublin, a jailer of Albertina], and Deborah Berlin [Bushay, a prostitute of Abertina].
Music by Elizabeth Parker.
Director Richard Wortley.
A Catherine Bailey Production.
Re-broadcast on BBC Radio 3: The Sunday Play on Sunday 16th July 2000 @ 10:15 p.m.
100 min.
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