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The Sunday Play: Albertina

on BBC Radio 3

By Howard Barker. The Bishop of Albertina, a tiny state in old Europe, has proposed to Rocklaw, the town's intellectual, that all undesirables should be put together and carried off on a Ship of Fools. But Rocklaw is plagued by jealousy when his wife follows her lover on board.
Music by Elizabeth Parker Director Richard Wortley

Contributors

Unknown:
Howard Barker.
Music By:
Elizabeth Parker
Director:
Richard Wortley
Gradisca, an actor:
Nicholas Le Prevost
Laibach, a wife:
Juliet Stevenson
Rocklaw, an intellectual:
Robert Glenister
Olmuts, the bishop:
Ian McDiarmid
Ochna a former nun:
Eleanor Tremain
Brun a convicted murderer:
Bill Stewart
Baines, a beggar:
Gavin Muir
Tubingen, an adulterer:
Nigel Anthony
Dublin, a gaoler:
Stephen Thorne
Boucher, a prostitute:
Deborah Berlin

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