Afternoon Plays VI
Afternoon Plays VI
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Afternoon Play - Afternoon Romancers by Nick McCarty
****** A man and a younger woman embark on an affair which they promise each other will not end in love,
until they discover that life cannot be so simply constructed.
Afternoon Play - Aftershock by Tina Pepler
******Tina Pepler's drama-documentary tells the story of a young student who returns to Istanbul
to find her friends there still trying to deal with the aftermath of the 1999 earthquake.
Afternoon Play - An Interlude of Men by Leslie Bruce
******Bren and Hilly are lifelong friends, but nostalgia is not that simple.
Afternoon Play - Matinee Performance by Deborah Cook
*******A LONDON crowd in AD 150 roars for the female gladiators. Greeneyes was once slave to Claudia,
and their journey of lust, friendship and betrayal leads to a death.
Afternoon Play - Becoming Carmen by Arnold Evans
******A farmer's wife with a nervous disposition and a string of O-levels has a big day in Cardiff involving
adultery, real estate and opera.
Afternoon Play - Chronicles Of Ait by Michael Butt
*******In the east coast settlement of Ait, a young girl is upsetting a normal life with her claims to second sight.
Psychologist Alice Pyper arrives with tried-and-tested solutions but finds that what works elsewhere is
dangerously ineffectual in Ait.
Afternoon Play - Curry Tales by Rani Moorthy
******Four cooks share their secrets. The stories include mood fusion curries for New Delhi society,
a grandmother's legacy in Malaysia, and an accountant's egg curry in London.
Afternoon Play - Dear Writer by Jane Rogers.
******Ten-year-old Polly sends an email to her favourite author,
asking why there have been no new books published recently.
The writer responds that she is old and tired and has run out of stories,
but there are deeper reasons for her inability to conjure any
more from her imagination.
Afternoon Play - Forty-three Fifty-nine Assassins by John Dryden and Mike Walker
******Henry, a professional killer, is sent to Hastings to assassinate a hedge fund manager.
But all is not right in Henry's mind.
Afternoon Play - Headlines by Melville Jones
******An ill-mannered female student at a secondary school is appallingly rude to a teacher.
A convoluted play, leading eventually to her come-uppance.
Afternoon Play - Jimmy's Letters by Andrew Sherlock
*******Andrew Sherlock's play is based on the true story of his parents' courtship, charted through Audrey's
reminiscences and Jimmy's letters from Korea, where he was serving in the early 1950s.
Afternoon Play - Keep Your Pantheon by David Mamet
******David Mamet's comedy of ancient Roman manners. An impoverished actor-manager
and his troupe struggle to survive.
Afternoon Play - King of Sootland by Richard Hurford
*******In the early days of Queen Victoria's reign, a boy and a teenage girl - who he assumes
to be a new maidservant but is in fact the young Victoria - go on an adventure through the
chimneys of Buckingham Palace.
Afternoon Play - Ladies Day by Amanda Whittington
*******To celebrate her early retirement, Pearl takes her two best friends from work for a day at the races.
The outing becomes a rollercoaster ride of emotions, changing fortunes and some unexpected revelations.
Afternoon Play - Life, An Audio Tour by Jules Horne
******Jenny is trying to win Joe back after her disastrous affair. Her strategy is to offer him an
audio tour of a small Scottish town.
Afternoon Play - Listen to the Words by Ed Hime
******Tim, who has a problem with empathy, books the media room of the secure unit where he is being held
and creates a broadcast for his college radio station.
Afternoon Play - Little Trains That Pass by Michael Judge
******Hugh Conway, a 35-year-old accountant, always takes the train to work. One morning on the train,
a man comes into the carriage he's in and strikes up a conversation that leads to a bizarre accusation.
Subsequent events take on a nightmarish life of their own.
Afternoon Play - Little Words by Amy Rosenthal
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Afternoon Play - London Pride by Adrian Middleton
****** two explosions in a pub, 60 years apart.
Afternoon Play - Love And Friendship by Jane Austin
******This tale, in epistolary form, is one of Jane Austen's Juvenilia. Love and Freindship
(which is usually cited in Jane Austen's original spelling) is an exuberant parody of the
cult of sensibility, which she later criticized in a more serious way in her novel Sense
and Sensibility. For the main characters in Love and Freindship, including the
narrator Laura, violent and overt emotion substitutes for morality and common sense.
Afternoon Play - Love Contract by Mike Bartlett
******Emma battles to hang on to her dignity in a series of increasingly bizarre interviews with her manager.
Afternoon Play - Love Shaped Thing by Rebecca Papworth
******When artist Guy escapes London to return to his home town of Halifax, he falls for 16-year-old Shona.
Can she escape through his colourful canvasses?
Afternoon Play - Loveboat by Anjum Malik
******Kiran and younger sister Shimla set out for a cruise on the Thames.
Afternoon Play - Love's Executioner by Rachel Joyce
******adapted from the case notes of Dr Irvin Yalom. Thelma is 70 years old and in love with a man 24 years her junior.
Can psychotherapy cure her magnificent obsession?
Afternoon Play - Lucky Lonnie by Mike Stott
****** Johnny Vegas stars in Mike Stott's comedy as Lonny, 50, much married in the past with many children,
now living, content, on his own in his caravan. Then son Bernard buys him a lottery ticket and it comes up,
changing Lonny's life from one of snoring male contentment to that of hot pursuit by the local press, in the shape
of Kimberly Plumb (Lindsey Marshal) suddenly intent on matrimony.
Afternoon Play - Macmorris by John Morrison
****** In John Morrison's comic fantasy some of the minor characters in Shakespeare's cannon have decided
that they want bigger and better parts. A rebellion is led by Captain Macmorris from Henry V, the only Irish character
in the whole body of Shakespeare's work.
Afternoon Play - Mamihlapinatapai by Eliza Langland
******In a series of scenes and sketches, Eliza Langland's play explores moments of `mamihlapinatapai' -
a word from Tierra del Fuego that describes the situation where two people look at one another, each hoping
that the other will offer to do something which both much desire, but are unwilling to do.
Afternoon Play - Man Talk by Othniel Smith
******A chance encounter with Vince reminds Kenny what he owes to their unusual friendship,
even though it ended rather abruptly.
Afternoon Play - Mangosteen Mania by Charlotte Cory.
******On board a ship from Bombay to Southampton in 1901, a rare mangosteen plant
travels by Royal Appointment
from Queen Victoria herself.
A fictional story of one man's attempt to win a prize and how others attempted to cash in on it.
Afternoon Play - Mapping the Heart by Beatrice Colin
******An adventure story set in 1950, in the rainforest of Brazil.
Scots-born Kristina Morrison is thrown together with opinionated American, Ray Epstein, when their light aircraft crashes
in the jungle. Kristina finds herself torn between two men - Ray and her explorer father, Felix, via the diary of his failed
expedition 25 years before.
Afternoon Play - Marcus Mundy's Change Of Life by Alexandra Caddell
******In Alexandra Caddell's comic play, which takes place in real time, Marcus Mundy has 44 minutes
in which to park his car, get to the theatre and propose to his girlfriend. But a lot can happen in 44 minutes.
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Afternoon Play - Martha My Dear by Annie McCartney
******Martha has always been an Agony Aunt for her wayward friends, but the publication of a steamy bestseller
casts doubt on dear Martha's confidentiality
Afternoon Play - Mary Mary by Martin Sorrell
******Mary Bennet, the third of the sisters in Jane Austen's `Pride and Prejudice',
tells a very different version of events in her journal.
Afternoon Play - The Mouse House by Adrian Penketh.
******Wannabe cultural terrorist Mike is determined to make a splash; make a statement; make more of his life.
But has he got what it takes to pull it off and light up the skies above London?
Afternoon Play - Palm Therapy by Sharon Shrubsall
******Musical comedy by Sharon Shrubsall. Simone, about to hit thirty, feels bleak about her future,
her love life and her singing career - until an unexpected botanical birthday present arrives which changes
everything in the most delightful way.
Afternoon Play - Rep by Jonathan Holloway
******Actor George Friendly has just started work in one of Britain's last surviving seaside repertory theatres.
His first part is in Clubfoot the Avenger, and he thinks he knows how the rest of the summer is going to go.
Afternoon Play - Standing Sideways by Matt Charman
******Claire Skinner stars in Matt Charman’s psychological drama about a woman who develops
Personal Space Phobia, PSP, a condition where people can’t bear to touch or be touched.
It’s affecting Nancy’s marriage, her children, everything. And she still can’t understand what’s
happening to her. Her doctor is determined to help, but it’s only when her best friend turns up
that she realises the danger she’s in.
Afternoon Play - Summer Walking by Iain Finlay MacLeod
******set in the far north of Scotland. Catriona is pregnant to a man who is always in trouble, so the
burden of making ends meet falls to her: poaching salmon and fishing for freshwater pearls.
She finds an unlikely ally in Hassan, an Iranian working illegally as a gamekeeper on the big estate,
and their friendship offers the possibility of a life beyond the walls of her caravan.
Afternoon Play - Tank Man by Julia Stoneham'
******The remarkable story of Ken Small, a hairdresser from Hull, who settled in south Devon and
became dedicated to the creation of a permanent memorial to the victims of Exercise Tiger,
one of the worst fiascos of the Second World War.
Afternoon Play - The Making of Ivan the Terrible by Hattie Naylor
******Black comedy based on events in 1944.
Sergei Eisenstein suffered a heart attack during a banquet to celebrate winning the prestigious Stalin Prize
for his film Ivan the Terrible Part 1. Stalin had been delighted with the depiction of Ivan as a cruel and ruthless ruler.
Earlier that day, however, Eisenstein had delivered Part 2 of his intended trilogy, in which Ivan was portrayed as
neurotic, mad and vindictive.
Afternoon Play - The Man on the Pillar by Justin Butcher
******An exploration of the exotic world of visions and miracles through the eyes of a preacher and healer
who spent thirty years living on a pillar.
Afternoon Play - The Man Who Mistook His Life For An Organiser by Mike Harris
******The disastrously comic tale of what happens when technology takes over one man's life.
Afternoon Play - The Magician's Daughter by Adam Beeson
*****Comedy drama set in 19th-century Europe.
A celebrated magician is shot on stage. With his dying breaths, he passes on the secrets of his spectacular act to his daughter.
Fearing pursuit by jealous rivals, she disappears.
Afternoon Play - The Master And Mrs Tucker by Roy Apps
*****Drama based on the story of the friendship between Noel Coward and E Nesbit.
Afternoon Play - Me And Ma Gal by Des Dillon
******Des Dillon's first play for radio is based on his widely-acclaimed novel
in which a day in the life of two young boys in the summer of 1970 turns out
to be full of adventure.
When eight-year-old Derrick runs into a police station to report that his pal
Stephen Gallagher (Gal for short) has been caught by 'Strangler Joe' the police
are sceptical. Even his mother says that he likes to make things up.
Afternoon Play - May Child by Elizabeth Kuti
******Patricia Routledge stars as Margaret in this poignant play about coming to terms with the past.
On Margaret's 67th birthday, an uninvited guest calls who shares the same birthday. The teenager, May,
seems to know more about Margaret's life than she should. So who is she and what does she really want?
Afternoon Play - The Tower by Richard Monks
******Mashama is on the run from his home; Eva believes she can't return to hers. Music brings them together
at a motorway service station, but the law is not far behind.
Afternoon Play - This is My Car Park by Mark Tuohy
******Luke's brush with the big time has left him bruised and sleeping rough in a scruffy London car park.
But why does he refuse to set foot outside it? Two locals strike up a friendship with him, but is it enough
to restore his faith in humanity?
Afternoon Play - Three in a Bed by Ewa Banaszkiewicz and Mateusz Dymek
******Tom and Sarah Hadley appear to have it all. But when Gemma becomes involved with the couple,
she finds herself caught in a web of jealousy and lies.
Afternoon Play - When in Rome by Ngaio Marsh
******Murder, blackmail and drug-dealing on the Tiber combine in one of
Ngaio Marsh's liveliest and most evocative novels. When their guide
disappears mysteriously in the depths of a Roman Basilica, the members
of Mr Sebastian Mailer's tour group seem strangely unperturbed. But when
a body is discovered in an Etruscan sarcophagus, Superintendent Alleyn,
in Rome incognito on the trail of an international drug racket, is very much
concerned...