The original Broadway production of "The Ballad of the Sad Cafe" by Edward Albee opened at the Martin Beck Theater in New York on 30th October 1963 and ran for 123 performances until the play closed on 15th February 1964.
Debut theatrical feature film directed by actor Simon Callow. The picture remains the first, final and only ever cinema movie directed by Callow.
This motion picture is set in the 1930s and can be genre classified as being a depression-era drama.
Actress Colleen Dewhurst, who had portrayed the character of Miss Amelia Evans in the original 1963-64 Broadway stage production, passed away in the same 1991 year that this movie version was first released. The Miss Amelia character is played in this filmed version by actress Vanessa Redgrave.