Afternoon Plays VIII
  
  


Afternoon Play - What Might Have Been by Joseph O'Connor
******Inspired by the story of Joseph and Bridget Moore, real-life Irish 
immigrants, as they struggle to cope with life in a New York tenement 
on the Lower East Side in 1869.

America is not, as anticipated, the land of milk and honey, 
but it is most certainly the home of the brave
                            [Beautifully read by Stephen Rea]


Afternoon Play - My Lovely Man by Paul Watson
******Comedy by Paul Watson about the world of the 'blue blood' debutantes, set in 1958.

Jemima Courtney's parents advise her in her bid to secure a match with Claude, son of the ageing Viscount Tudely. 
Unfortunately, however, there are many others in the cattle market who are competing for a noble but crumbling pile 
garlanded with the title Viscountess, the Lady Tudely.


Afternoon Play  - Sons by Nell Leyshon
******Two mothers react very differently when their sons fall in love. 


Afternoon Play  - The Strange Desire of Ms Small by Debbie Jones
*******Lois has all but forgotten the flamboyant mischief of her past until she meets Elsie, 
                                     a disillusioned clerk 40 years her junior.


Afternoon Play - Time Breathes by Rhiannon Tise.
******nsomnia can affect anyone. Gemma is in love with a man who never calls her. Teenager Kris 
is losing touch with his mates. Their story is inter-cut with advice from a real-life sleep expert, 
Dr Adrian Williams from Guys and St Thomas' Hospital, London.

Afternoon Play - My Brother's Keeper by Nichola McAuliffe
*******based on the true story of the relationship between journalist Don Mackay 
                             and a condemned man on Rawalpindi's death row.


Afternoon Play - Giselle by Hattie Naylor
******Hattie Naylor's reworking of the ballet, a story of hidden identities, 
thwarted love and deceased brides who dance men to death.


Afternoon Play - Fred Rimble by John B Keane
******The charming story of Jim Conlon's fervent attempts to cure his hypochondriac mother.


Afternoon Play - Drowning by Mike Walker
******When solicitor Richard Parker gets an anonymous phone call saying that his aunt has died, 
he has to go to Norfolk to clear her house and arrange the burial. When he arrives, he finds that nothing is as it should be.


Afternoon Play - Dreaming in English by John Godber and Jane Thornton
*******Since emigrating from Poland, Magda has made a good life for herself in Hull. But now her brother 
is coming to stay and she faces problems.


Afternoon Play - The Discourse of Two Once Young Women by Jane Beeson
******Three old friends from schooldays during the war plan to meet up. Why are the two women so nervous, 
and what can have changed so radically? Their male friend acts as a conduit but the circumstance of their 
meeting is something none of them could have anticipated.


Afternoon Play - Dave the Dead Lefty by Mervyn Stutter
******The surviving members of a radical 1970s theatre group are reunited at the funeral of their former roadie. 
Old loves are rekindled, old wounds reopened and old secrets exhumed.


Afternoon Play - The Gertie by Shane Connaughton
******When octogenarian Billy Ball wins a cabin cruiser he comes up with a thrilling plan. 
With the help of his best mate Alf, he decides to take his wife Kathleen home to her native city 
of Dublin. Holyhead to Dun Laoighaire is only a 90-mile crossing, and this could be the voyage of their lives.


Afternoon Play - Even Song by Art Tanner
********Charles Latimer takes his place for choral evensong. But the beauty of the music 
and the setting do not neessarily lead to serene thoughts


Afternoon Play - DEIA by Martin Jameson.
******Two couples go on holiday to a small guesthouse in the beautiful Balearic village of Deia in Northern Majorca 
and an intriguing puzzle begins to unfold. Is there a rational explanation or do ghosts really exist?


Afternoon Play - Cut to the Heart by Nicola Wilson
******When Ted leaves Alice for her best friend, it takes ten years for the ripples of betrayal to die down.


Afternoon Play - Clear Water by Stephen Phelps
******In the autumn of 1999, 28-year-old Alan Maclean disappeared from a yacht travelling 
from the Seychelles to France. This play charts his father's search for the truth.


Afternoon Play - Candy Floss Kisses by Simon Farquhar
******about life in the village of Cullen, in Scotland, Simon Farquhar's home town.


Afternoon Play - Brought to Book by Joan Bakewell
*******Lucy has been appointed chair of the Widmerpool Prize for Fiction. She is determined to find the very best novel 
amid the mountain of submissions. But as both literary and personal pressures grow, can she maintain her high ideals 
against dreaded compromise?


Afternoon Play - The Boy Fathers by Peter Hunter and David Johnson
******developed with the Teenage Parents Project in Bristol.

Lying in a hospital bed, desperate to recover in time to get to the birth of his child, 
Richie composes rap lyrics, a soundtrack to his life.


Afternoon Play - Beryl du Jour by Jane Purcell
*******It's Beryl's fiftieth tomorrow, and nothing's going right, not her hairdressing, not husband Harvey, 
certainly not son Freddie's parcels of washing. She has a deep sense of unfulfillment, which even her 
new job as a volunteer telephone counsellor can't fix. Then she discovers what the salon's used 
for in the evening. It could be a whole new life.


Afternoon Play - August Birthdays by Frances Byrnes
*******On Katherine's 39th birthday, she walks the streets where she grew up and is drawn back 
to an earlier and more eventful birthday.


Afternoon Play - The Aquatic Ape by Joy Wilkinson
******Pippa and Barney's second honeymoon has only made them realise how much 
they can't stand each other. They are both entertaining murderous ideas.


Afternoon Play - All Fingers and Thumbs by Alan Stafford 
******A romantic comedy about communication. Sign language interpreter Marie wants more deaf people 
to enjoy the theatre. So does director Tom - but not if it involves a bothersome spot-lit woman 
                         waving her arms about on his stage. 


Afternoon Play - Abigail Adams by Mark Shand
******When Abigail Adams falls off the top of her tower block whilst painting a picture for her parents' anniversary, 
she comically contemplates her misfit teenage life.


Afternoon Play - A Regent's Tale by David Pownall
******Having endlessly endured his father's refusal to give up the throne, an exasperated Prince of Wales 
turns to a playwright for some revolutionary advice. Some things never change.


Afternoon Play - A Man Cut in Slices by Adrian Penketh
******Paul Tate goes for a job interview and finds himself on front pages and TV screens across the world. 
He is unwittingly cast as the symbol of Londoners' defiance in the face of terrorism after an office block is blown up.


Afternoon Play - 21 Conversations with a Hairdresser by Carolyn Scott-Jeffs
******On a wet day in 1991; Laura arrives in David's hairdressing salon looking like a drowned rat; 
hoping to be transformed into Jerry Hall. Things don't work out quite like that as we eavesdrop on 
21 conversations between a woman and her stylist over the next 15 years. 
A delightfully comic look at a classic relationship.


Afternoon Play - Higher - Inspection by Joyce Bryant
*******Satire on tertiary education, chronicling the chaos of the Geography department 
at the fictional Hayborough University, ranked 132nd in the academic league table.

In these straightened times there have to be cuts. So it does seem a bit of a coincidence that when 
David Poll is earmarked for disciplinary measures leading to possible dismissal, 
the Quality Assurance Inspectorate should turn up.


Afternoon Play - Hide by Paul Farley
******Two bird watchers are peering through the slats of a hide and talking as they watch the mud 
and marshes in front of them. Then something rare turns up outside and a visitor joins them inside


Afternoon Play - Henry's Girls by Alan Stafford
*******Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas received its premiere at a girls' boarding school in Chelsea in 1689. 
So why did one of England's most popular composers choose to write his greatest masterpiece for a gaggle of 
unruly schoolgirls rather than the professional theatre? 


Afternoon Play - Hell and High Water by Maryanne Carey
******Marlene encourages her friend Kay to spend a weekend at a spiritual health centre in the country. 
Will self-exploration and soul searching help them ring changes in their lives?


Afternoon Play - Is He Still Breathing? by Howard Belgard
******Drama-documentary co-written with Nick Drake, exploring the world of the ambulance call centre. 
Sunita loves her job, the camaraderie, the humour and the satisfaction of helping people when they 
need it most. So why is she leaving?


Afternoon Play - Hiraeth in Hughesovka by Colin Thomas
******Colin Thomas's drama documentary is set in the steel town of Hughesovka, established in the Ukraine 
in the 1870s by Welsh capitalist John Hughes and initially mainly populated by Welsh miners and steelmen. 
Played out to a documentary background of letters and journals written by real inhabitants of Hughesovka, 
the story follows a romance that develops between a young Welsh miner and a Ukrainian girl.


Afternoon Play - Asha
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Afternoon Play - The House That Eileen Built by Alexandra Parsons
******Eileen Gray was a designer and architect. In Alexandra Parsons’s play she also emerges as a woman 
whose ideas were assumed by men who then became more famous. She fell in love with Jean Badovici, 
editor of a magazine which, with her help, became a success. Through him she meets 
Le Corbusier and helped to make architectural history.


Afternoon Play - Jack's Love by Michael Hastings
******Duncan views his teenage son Jack as a loser and good-for-nothing. Jack has got into trouble and spent time 
in a youth detention centre, but is Duncan himself without blame?


Afternoon Play - Jane and Tom: The Real Pride and Prejudice by Elizabeth Lewis
******based on letters sent by Jane Austen to her sister Cassandra, tells the story 
of the author's love for the young Irishman Tom Lefroy.


Afternoon Play - Jim and Tonic by Dan Jamieson
******Dan Jamieson's magical modern version of The Sorcerer's Apprentice.
about a trainee gin distiller and his unrequited love.


Afternoon Play - Jump by Alexis Zegerman
******inspired by Event Horizon, Antony Gormley's current exhibition at the Hayward Gallery.

Gormley's army of lonely figures stand poised on the edges of buildings across the South Bank. 
A young free runner, jumping and vaulting his way across his familiar stamping ground, 
lands face-to-face with one of these iron men.


Afternoon Play - The Kerlogue by Dermot Bolger.
*******Ireland's neutrality during the Second World War comes under question when the crew of a small cargo ship 
decide to rescue 168 German sailors from the huge swells of the Bay of Biscay.


Afternoon Play - The King of Pripyat by Peter Cann and Steve Johnstone.
******A young nuclear physicist from Sellafield is on an exchange trip to Chernobyl and makes an illicit trip 
to the evacuated city of Pripyat, which has been deserted for 20 years.

Whilst there, he is gripped by the ghostly image of a man on top of a tower block aiming a crossbow. 
In spite of repeated warnings to stay away, he embarks on a dangerous mission to discover 
the identity of this mysterious figure.


Afternoon Play - Lessons for the Loveless by Richard Cameron.
******Four disaffected teenagers and their drama teacher are trying to mount an improvised play 
around the Seven Ages of Man. Time, however, is not on their side.


Afternoon Play - The Lost Boys of Africa 
*******The interwoven stories of Californian builder Billy Scherer and Kenyan street kid Lulu, 
whose worlds come together through a charity project for slum children in Nairobi. 
Billy has been brought in as Lulu's music mentor, but it gradually becomes unclear who is mentoring whom.

Lemn Sissay narrates this true story about hope, determination and the power of music.


Afternoon Play - The Immigrants by John P Rooney
*******On a cold; wet day in Belfast in the 1960s; three unemployed lads view their future with dismay. 
With employment prospects looking bleak; the offer of a passage to Australia looks tempting.


Afternoon Play - The Influence by Sebastian Baczkiewicz
******The village of Kelstone is like any other village. It has its shops and its pub and the local doctor 
who looks after everyone. Only now he can't. H5N1 has mutated in to a human viral strain and is being 
passed rapidly from person to person. How did this happen?


Afternoon Play - The Insecurity Guard by Cynthia Hamilton
*******Architect Jessie Bruce develops an unusual eating disorder in the face of a personal and professional crisis.


Afternoon Play - Looking for Angels 1.3 - Left at the Angel by Jack Thorne
****** touching story of how three young boys cope with the death of their friend. 
They steal his ashes and take them on foot from their South London home to the Angel of the North.


Afternoon Play - Looking for Angels 2.3 - Otherkin by Laura Wade
*******Ash is a displaced spirit, an angelic whose phantom wings require her to rip holes in the back of 
every jumper she owns. Her human body looks quite ordinary but her true form is more beautiful than 
anything dreamed up by fantasy writers. She meets Neil, a dragon who needs help to unlock his memories.


Afternoon Play -  Looking for Angels 3.3 - Quintessence by Rachel Joyce.
********A year after the sudden death of her boyfriend, Faith decides to drive down to their favourite place 
in Devon to scatter his ashes. She stops at five service stations on her nocturnal drive, 
                                and at each one an angel tries to help her.


Afternoon PLay - Late by Dan Sefton
******A comedy drama about an ordinary marriage that takes place over 20 years, and four very special New Year's Eves.



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