Afternoon Plays II
Afternoon Plays II
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Afternoon Play - Born for War by David Pownall
******the invasion of the Suez Canal in 1956. Born For War featured Mark Arens as an
angry young man as the big news event of the day highlighted uncomfortable divisions in his family.
Afternoon Play - Chair by Edward Bond
******In Chair, Mr. Bond explores theatricality in an austere and concentrated way without
embellishment or decoration. Mr. Bond envisions a haunting Orwellian world in which security
is more important than freedom. Alice's single kindly gesture of bringing a chair to a soldier
waiting for a bus leads to the unimaginable.
Afternoon Play - Clarice Bean Spells Trouble by Lauren Child
******Clarice juggles concerns about her problems with spelling, her frequently changing roles
in a school production of The Sound of Music, and her friend Karl's unhappiness at home, troubles
at school, and hurtful rejection of Clarice. And, unlike most kids in modern children's books, she watches television.
Afternoon Play - Coming of Age 1.4- Blackout by Anji Loman Field
Afternoon Play - Coming of Age 2.4- Mother Me by Maya Chowdhry
Afternoon Play - Coming of Age 3.4- Pilcher and Son by Stuart Morris
Afternoon Play - Coming of Age 4.4- Soldier Boy by Grant Buchanan Marshall
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Afternoon Play - Cool Bag Baby by Katie Hims
******A coolbag containing a baby is left outside a cafe in the hope that owner will provide it with a loving home.
But unexpectedly the cafe stays closed, with the result that the baby is undiscovered and lives across
London begin to fall apart.
Afternoon Play - Daisy, the Cow Who Talked by Gerry Stembridge
******a tribunal investigates corruption within the meat industry in Ireland. The department of Agriculture desperately
need to do a cover up job. The border has been an open invitation to skulduggery, corrupt vets, disguised abattoirs.
Tom Doherty, a young civil servant is sent to investigate the border area. He can make no sense of any of it until he
meets and gradually falls in love with Daisy - a gentle and sweet natured COW!
Afternoon Play - Daybreak by Tom Ray
******A week after his wife has left him, Phil wakes up one morning to find that the sun has not risen.
He is forced to reveal his extraordinary secret.
Afternoon Play - Delayed Departures by Matthew Solon
******When a flight to Dubrovnik is delayed, the passengers are forced to wait.
Among them is Laura Clarke, a doctor stuck in the past.
Afternoon Play - Devastated Areas by Adam Thorpe
******Adam Thorpe's play for Armistice Day about three families affected by the absence of loved ones
in World War One. A sculptress in Berlin works on a memorial statue, a glazier in the valley of the Somme
repairs blown-out windows and on the Berkshire Downs, a gardener tends his roses.
Afternoon Play - Devil's Province by Peter Roberts
******A 13th century Provencal troubadour, Bernard de Nairac, encounters an Cathar family
and is dragged into the horrors of the Albigensian Crusade.
Afternoon Play - Don't Forget to Breathe by Debbie Kent
******Jez livens up his job as a telephone-sales operator by breathing down the phone at a nuisance caller.
But the response he gets is not quite what he expected.
Afternoon Play - Don't Look Now by Daphne du Maurier
******John and Laura are on holiday in Venice, but it is a dangerous place
for them as they are being followed by two old sisters and there is
a killer on the loose.
Afternoon Play - Island Blue 1.5 - Brave New World by Vicki Feaver
Afternoon Play - Island Blue 2.5 - Grandmother's Footsteps by Stephen Potts
Afternoon Play - Island Blue 3.5 - Ronald by David Bishop
Afternoon Play - Island Blue 4.5 - A Place In The Rain by Jules Horne
Afternoon Play - Island Blue 5.5 - Looking After Billy by Louise Ironside.
******tales of family relationships and deception, set on a remote Scottish island
Afternoon Play - Lottery Ticket By Donna Franceschild
******Black comedy by Donna Franceschild. An asylum seeker and a migrant worker find a stray lottery ticket
and think it may be the answer to all their problems.
Afternoon Play - Miracle Worker by Katharine Way
******about a teenage girl with the gift of spiritual healing.
Afternoon Play - Mole by Richard Monks
******Richard Monks' comic tale of an amateur gardener who becomes dangerously obsessed
with hunting down the mole that has dared to desecrate his pristine lawn. But his obsession hides
a deeper and more damaging problem.
Afternoon Play - Monstrous Mother by Mike Harris
******Comedy chiller by Mike Harris. 12-year-old Cathy has a vivid imagination which can sometimes get
dangerously out of control.
Afternoon Play - Murder By The Book by Stephen Sheridan
******When a corpse is found in the Crime Section of Langston Library, two elderly librarians decide to
emulate Miss Marple and solve the mystery themselves.
Afternoon Play - Murders In The Rue Morgue by E A Poe
******C. Auguste Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the mysterious brutal
murder of two women. Numerous witnesses heard a suspect, though no one
agrees on what language was spoken. At the murder scene, Dupin finds a
hair that does not appear to be human.
Afternoon Play - Mystery Of The Yellow Room by Gaston Leroux
******In a 1935 novel, John Dickson Carr, the master of locked-room mysteries,
declared the Yellow Room Mystery to be the 'best detective tale ever written.' it was voted
the third best locked room mystery of all time.
Afternoon Play - New Metamorphoses 1.5- Zeus and Semele
Afternoon Play - New Metamorphoses 2.5- Echo and Narcissus
Afternoon Play - New Metamorphoses 3.5- Myrrha
Afternoon Play - New Metamorphoses 4.5- Callisto
Afternoon Play - New Metamorphoses 5.5- Phaethon
******Contemporary reworkings of tales by Ovid
Afternoon Play - Next Of Kin by T S Eliot
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Afternoon Play - Nine Days Queen by Amanda Whittington
******The story of the trial of Lady Jane Grey, proclaimed Queen of England in 1553 at the age of 16,
nine days later locked in the Tower and, within a year, dead.
Afternoon Play - None of the Above by Christopher Green
******Christopher Green's three linked plays about sex and classification, featuring the stories of a
transsexual married couple, a barman born a woman and a retiring consultant surgeon who has
performed gender reassignments throughout his career.
Afternoon Play - Sex for Volunteers by Laura Marney and David Ramos Fernandes.
******A Romantic Comedy. When Suzy's husband takes a job abroad, her sister encourages her to join a team of first-aiders.
Afternoon Play - Star Man by Alistair Jessiman
******On a visit home to Glasgow for his father's funeral, Tom's thoughts go back to 1974, the year when -
as a 15-year-old schoolboy - he was fascinated by stars: astronomical stars in the night sky, glamorous
rock-stars like David Bowie, and would-be local stars like the charismatic and sexually ambiguous Danny
who he meets one day on the bus.
Afternoon Play - Strike by Amanda Dawson
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Afternoon Play - The Cat 1.2 by Collette
Afternoon Play - The Cat 2.2
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Afternoon Play - The Condition Of The Virgin by by Boothby Graffoe
******This theological satire was first produced at the Edinburgh International Arts Festival in 2001,
then later performed at the Hackney Empire. It was adapted for radio by the author and has had two
broadcasts on Radio 4, directed by Toby Swift.
Afternoon Play - The Conversations by Trevor Friedman
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Afternoon Play - The Day the Planes Came by Caroline and David Stafford
******The events of 9/11 cause many American flights to be diverted to Canada. The sleepy town of Gander
in Newfoundland finds itself accommodating over 6,000 stranded passengers, including Sarah and her teenage
daughter Polly. A selfless and put-upon divorcee, Sarah is seduced by the local people's hospitality. Finally, she
learns to let her hair down. She has her first kiss in years, catches a fish, meets Crazy Pete, dabbles in a bit of
karaoke and finally gets the few hours of sleep that have eluded her for so long.
Afternoon Play - The Detox by Rebecca Saire
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Afternoon Play - The Last Smoker by Yasutaka Tsutsui
******Cantankerous novelist Haruki, the world's last smoker, is hounded to a fate worse than death by
do-gooders and self-righteous journalists, as they try to eradicate smoking once and for all.
Afternoon Play - The Museum by Leila Aboulela
******Dramatisation by the author of a prizewinning short story. A Scottish student falls for a
Sudanese girl, but not everything goes smoothly.
Afternoon Play - The Night They Deliver the Money by R.D.Wingfield
******Lockwood West's harassed bank manager cleaves desperately to routine procedures in the face of potential disaster
Afternoon Play - Trinity 2 - Early Birds by Sarah Woods
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Afternoon Play - Voyages of Descent
******The tale of Captain Fitzroy, who invited Darwin to sail with him - ending in a mix of tragedy and fame.
Afternoon Play - Women in Love 1.4 by D H Lawrence
Afternoon Play - Women in Love 2.4
Afternoon Play - Women in Love 3.4
Afternoon Play - Women in Love 4.4
******A sequel to the banned novel, The Rainblow, Women in Love
follows the tumultuous lives of the Brangwen sisters, Gudrun and Ursula.
Turning his keen eye on the nature of love, commitment, passion, and
marriage, Lawrence gives us the stories of two intelligent, incisive, and
observant women, whose temperamental differences spark an ongoing
debate regarding their society and their inner lives. The two very different
sisters pursue thrilling, torrid affairs; but their quest for more mature
emotional relationships uncovers some startling information about
their lovers and themselves.
Sunday playhouse - Woman on a Beach
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