Afternoon Plays III
F:\Afternon Plays III ===================== Afternoon Play - 3000 by Anna Symon ******Fact-based dramatisation of the experiences of one of the 3,000 unaccompanied displaced children who arrive in the UK every year: that of Mehrab, an Afghan boy who arrives in London in the back of a truck aged 15.
Afternoon Play - A Far Cry From Kensington by Muriel Spark
******Set in a rooming house near South Kensington underground
this novel portrays the horror as well as the romance in bedsitter land.
It is written by the author of "Girls of Slender Means" and
"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie".
Afternoon Play - A King's Speech by Mark Burgess
******It is 1937, the day of the Coronation, and the newly-crowned George VI must
broadcast to the nation and the empire - a terrifying prospect for perhaps the most
notable Briton to have suffered from a stammer. This play focuses on the close working
relationship between the King and his speech therapist.
Afternoon Play - A Place in the World by Harriet O'Carroll
******Following the 30 years war, Clara and Tobi flee Germany for the promise of a better life
in Ireland. But what they find there is far from the Promised Land.
Afternoon Play - A Question of Royalty by Andrew Lynch
******inspired by real events. Two bungling self-employed plasterers, ignorant of the
constitutional crisis their actions could precipitate, steal The Queen's wedding certificate 
while working on the refurbishment of the Public Records Office.
Afternoon Play - A Tiger For Malgudi by R. K. Narayan
******A venerable tiger looks back over his life from cubhood and early days roaming wild
in the jungle. Trapped into a miserable circus career he is then sold into films (co-starring
with a Tarzan) until, finding the human world too brutish and bewildering, he makes
a dramatic bid for freedom.
Afternoon Play - Annapurna by Jod Mitchell
******Tension mounts as a young English couple trek their way across a treacherous
Himalayan mountain range and realise that a mysterious Nepali is stalking them,
getting closer by the day.
Afternoon Play - Aromatherapy by Ed Harris
******Robert returns from holiday in Thailand in crippling pain from an illness with a very unusual cure.
Afternoon Play - Bad By Default by Leah Chillery
******Comedy by Leah Chillery. Tanya disappears with her mother's credit card to
Jamaica to find her father, the man her mother said abandoned them.
Afternoon Play - Baring Up . by Frank Rickarby
******Fictionalised account of 47-year-old grandmother, Conservative councillor and
naturist Eileen Jakes' 1979 campaign to win the right to bare her naked body
on the pebbles of Brighton beach.
Afternoon Play - Black 5 Foot Nothing by Rosemary Kaye
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Afternoon Play - Buried by Steve Jacobi
******Steve Jacobi's play tells the story of his friend Mark Higson, a civil servant who
blew the whistle on the Iraqi arms scandal in 1989.
Afternoon Play - DeweyEyed by Sarah Naomi Lee
******Philippa is a librarian from a long line of librarians. When her father dies and
her mother loses her wits, she tries the only language her mother understands,
that of the Dewey cataloguing system, to guide her back to sanity.
Afternoon Play - Dolly by Christopher Douglas
******based on the real events surrounding the selection of Basil D'Oliveira for the England cricket team in the 1960s.
Having emigrated to England and been called up to the national team, D'Oliveira's one unfulfilled ambition is
to be selected to tour against his native South Africa. But the administrators of both
South African and English cricket have other ideas.
Afternoon Play - Enemy In My Mouthby Mike Walker
******Madrid, 1936: a British sharpshooter, a volunteer, has a brief to assassinate a mirror soul -
the ace sniper on the enemy side..
Afternoon Play - Feather by Rachel Joyce
******Fern believes in magic, Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy. She is collecting feathers
because they can make wishes come true, and Fern has a very big and important wish.
Afternoon Play - Fifteen by Deborah Wain
******Neglected and secretly pregnant, 15-year-old foster child Ellie looks for love in the
wrong place until it finds her with a power she never expected.
Afternoon Play - Forty-Three Fifty-Nineby Mike Walker
******City worker Grant finds himself caught up in in a catastrophe in which many will die
if he fails to act decisively.
Afternoon Play - Gondwanaland by Stephen Keyworth
******Stephen Keyworth's drama inspired by the friendship between family planning pioneer
Marie Stopes and explorer Captain Robert Scott
Afternoon Play - Great Hargeisa Goat Bubble by Julian Gough
******The story of an encounter between a young Irish orphan, Jude, and Dr Ibrahim Bihi,
a Somali who has made and lost a fortune in the virtual goat market.
Afternoon Play - In A Land Far Away by Andy MacDonald
******Jamie, a British soldier in Afghanistan, struggles to show his emotions
when a friend is killed on patrol and to communicate with his young son
back home in Scotland. But thanks to the help of Wali, the company's
Afghan interpreter, he begins to open up and talk about his feelings.
Afternoon Play - Listening to the Generals by Adam Ganz
******The story of how German Jews who had fled the Nazis were tasked with secretly
recording and transcribing the conversations between German generals imprisoned in
a north London mansion during the Second World War.
Afternoon Play - Lunchtime of the Gods by Perry Pontac
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Afternoon Play - Miss St Andrews by Mike Bartlett
******Old grudges resurface as Miss St Andrews 1961 meets her old rival for
the university Charities Queen title nearly 50 years later.
Afternoon Play - Moment You Feel Itby Ed Harris
******Alf's memories come in flashes and great blank holes, along with a running commentary
from the voices of his past. So how does finding a strange coat in his kitchen remind Alf why
he doesn't want a bath today? A tender, sad comedy about losing your past.
Afternoon Play - Mr Wonderfulby Maggie Allen
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Afternoon Play - NQ 48 by Peter Vickers
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Afternoon Play - Old School Ties by Sue Eckstein
******Stand-up comedian Kit Nichols likes to satirise his boarding school experiences,
but his past takes on a different light when he reads the obituary of an old school friend.
Feeling guilty at having lost touch, Kit decides to confront the man who he believes is
responsible for his friend's unexpected death.
Afternoon Play - On The Field - Endgame by Annie Caulfield
******A sequel to the comic drama On the Field about British troops in Iraq.
Life on the army base in Basra is closing down - they would all rather be in Afghanistan.
Terry has got no money, the CO wants him to sing in a talent contest to boost morale and
he has got woman trouble. But he is just about to get his lucky break.
Afternoon Play - Parachutes by John McGahren
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Afternoon Play - The Presence by Dannie Abse
******the story of one man's year as he struggles to make sense of a life without his wife of more than 50 years.
Afternoon Play - Road Wife by Eoin McNamee
******A truck driver in Ireland gives a lift to a female Asian hitchhiker but gets more than he bargained for,
especially when his truck is stopped by immigration officers and he and his illegal occupant are taken in for questioning.
Afternoon Play - Shakespeare a la Carte by Jonathan Cullen and Richard Hahlo
******Actors from the theatre company Hydrocracker, masquerading as waiters in a pizza restaurant,
take over a live Shakespeare performance when they hear that the real actors from the RSC
and National Theatre have been delayed in traffic.
Afternoon Play - Stream River Sea by Peter Souter
******Romantic comedy about sudden death and the effect it has on two dysfunctional adults
and a highly precocious 13-year-old girl.
Afternoon Play - Suing Mr Spargo by Christopher William Hill
******When a student gets abysmal A-level results, her parents attempt to sue her school. But who is really to blame?
Afternoon Play - Tarzan of the Antirrhinums by Lavinia Murray
******Tarzan emerges from the bushes and announces that he will save Marx's failing garden centre from financial ruin.
Afternoon Play - The Gallery by Alan Plater
******The opening night of a Newcastle art gallery dissolves into chaos when a greyhound runs amok.
Afternoon Play - The Iceman Goeth by Steve Jacobi
******Featuring a candid interview with Holm, who talks about his childhood, his acting and the
death of his brother. It is intercut with a drama set in the summer of 1976, in the build-up to
Howard Davies' production of Eugene O'Neill's The Iceman Cometh, which Holm had to
leave after suffering a sudden attack of stage fright.
Afternoon Play - The Killing of Sister George by Frank Marcus
******Sister George is a beloved character in the popular radio series Applehurst, a nurse who ministers
to the medical needs and personal problems of the local villagers. She is played by June Buckridge,
who in real life is a gin-guzzling, cigar-chomping, slightly sadistic masculine woman, the antithesis of the
sweet character she plays.
Afternoon Play - The Man Who Knew Everything 1.3by Robin Brooks
Afternoon Play - The Man Who Knew Everything 2.3
Afternoon Play - The Man Who Knew Everything 3.3
******Jack Klaff stars at George Lewis, the famous 19th-century lawyer who defended the indefensible and never lost.
1: Madame Rachel and the Waters of Life. Several impressionable women have been robbed and defrauded
at a fashionable bathing house.
Afternoon Play - The Night House by Gillian Tindall
******Anne, a young newlywed, comes across a schoolgirl's journals which unlock
the secrets of the old house into which she has just moved.
Afternoon Play - The Recall Man by David Napthine
******Forensic psychologist Dr Joe Aston, a specialist in memory recall, assists the police in a series of cases,
beginning with an amnesia sufferer suspected of murder.
Afternoon Play - Tony's Little Sister by David and Caroline Stafford.
******David and Caroline Stafford's play tells the story of St Anthony - hermit, ascetic and founder of
Christian monasticism - from the point of view of his angry little sister Dious.
Afternoon Play - Waiting For Di by Colin Bytheway
******On the eve of Princess Diana's funeral, two unlikely strangers find themselves
thrown together as they mourn the loss of someone they never knew.
Afternoon Play - Welcome to the Wasteland by D J Britton
******As chief executive of her local council, Robyn has just days to stop recycling being wiped
from her ambitious environmental plans.
Afternoon Play - Where Three Roads Meet by Salley Vickers
******At the end of his life, an old man waits in his office for
a stranger to arrive. Over the next few weeks, Teiresias will
visit again, making his way across the heath to relate the story
of his life. As these two men sit together in front of a roaring fire,
a remarkable tale unfolds.The compelling story of Oedipus, who,
unknowingly, kills his father and marries his mother, is probably
the most influential of all the Greek myths, having furnished Freud's
theory of psychoanalysis. Bestselling novelist Salley Vickers, herself
a former psychoanalyst, takes the ancient story of patricide and incest
and explores it through the vision of Teiresias, the blind seer, who alone
'sees' the truth about the protagonists' terrible past and their place in the
cosmic order. Salley Vickers says, "I am interested in what human beings
believe they know and in fact don't know, which for me is the true tragedy
of Oedipus. It is an utterly contemporary drama about the ways we blind
ourselves to reality and the price we pay for knowledge."
Afternoon Play - Whispering Tree byby Tanika Gupta
******.TANIKA GUPTA's drama for the whole family. A year after her mother's death,
14-year-old Sharmila prefers to escape into a world of Hindu myth and legend
rather than confront her guilt and pain.
Afternoon Play - Woman From The North by Bernard MacLaverty
******Cassie has never sat an exam before but now finds herself facing a life-changing
assessment and the prospect of residential care.
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