Daughters of Albion
Daughters of Albion was written for ITV's Plays for Pleasure series which was ITVs response to the BBC's Play for Today. It was produced for ITV Yorkshire by David Cunliffe.
The play was filmed in 1978 and broadcast in 1979 and directed by Pedr James, who had directed Our Day Out two years earlier.
Cast
Annette Ekblom – Kathleen
Kate Fitzgerald – Sharron
Janet Rawson – Tracey
Jon Morrison – Philip
Anton Lesser – Ken
Peter Kinley – David
Kate Saunders – Jenny
Lynn Clayton – Shelagh
John Batty – The Host
Alan Igbom – Mike
Ian Burns – Singer
Daughters of Albion (the title is a quotation from the William Blake poem Visions of the Daughters of Albion) is a play about three girls from a Liverpool biscuit factory who find themselves at a student party, separated from the other guests by a gulf of culture and expectation.
Daughters of Albion follows a similiar theme to Willy Russell's more famous later works such as Educating Rita and Shirley Valentine in which working class women from Liverpool encounter an 'educated' world other than their own.
The play's text has been published and the piece has been performed theatrically, and was performed by the Liverpool Playhouse Youth Theatre in 1985.
