Afternoon Plays IX
  
  


Afternoon PLay - The Ugly American by Mike Daisey
******an American college exchange student in London who is desperate to absorb the British theatrical tradition, 
but instead falls into shady fringe theatre and an even shadier love affair.

With appearances by students from the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.


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 - Mothercloud by Martin Jonols
******translated from Swedish by Angela Adegren.
When his partner leaves him, Daniel turns to beer, Nietzsche and coaching the school football team. 
                              Then Tanya teaches him to drive.


Afternoon Play - Man of Steel by Frances Byrnes
*******Frances Byrnes's drama, set in Sheffield in 1982, is based on her own experience and that of her father 
and many of his friends as their lives are wrecked by redundancy. A job advertisement appears in the local paper.



Afternoon Play - The Making of the English Landscape by Jonathan Davidson
******Jonathan Davidson's play, inspired by the book by WG Hoskins, imagines the feelings of the land through 
centuries of being ploughed up, deep-mined and built on.



Afternoon Play - The Murder of My Aunt by Richard Hull
******In this darkly comic, quite immoral masterwork, Edward is an effete, poor young man 
who has something in store for his only relative, his wealthy aunt. First published in 1934, 
this classic mystery is considered a masterpiece of the inverted detective story, in which 
it is known "whodunit." The question is "how will they catch 'em?" Highly unpredictable, 
it contains one of the most surprising denouements in all of detective fiction.

"A classic of its kind; an intellectual shocker par excellence." 
           -- Howard Haycraft, Definitive Library of Detective-Crime-Mystery Fiction  


Afternoon Play - My Blue Piano by Marty Ross
*******Tragi-comic drama..Jerusalem, 1945. When eccentric German poet Else Lasker-Schüler is evicted by her landlady, 
she is forced to wander the city's troubled streets. In a series of strange encounters, she meets the angel Gabriel 
and the ghost of a chimpanzee murdered in a Nazi concentration camp. 


Afternoon Play - My Sister under the Skin by Corin Redgrave.
******A famous actor receives a letter from a woman unknown to him claiming a very special relationship; 
not only to him but also to his even more famous father. When they meet; an unlikely new relationship develops.


Afternoon Play - Nothing Happened by Shelley Silas and Luke Sorba.
*******Romantic comedy about a friendship that never goes any further. Boy - Girl angst.


Afternoon Play - Nought Happens Twice Thus by Adam Thorpe
******It is July 1921, and a production company has descended on Max Gate, Thomas Hardy's house near Dorchester, 
to make a film of The Mayor of Casterbridge.Hardy wants his second wife Florence to come and watch the actors at work. 
But Florence, worn down by caring for a man who is not only twice her age but who has also spent much of their marriage 
writing the greatest love poems of the century to his dead first wife, cannot share his enthusiasm.
Hardy has 45 minutes to try to change her mind.


Afternoon Play - Not a Games Person by Julie Myerson
******An enhanced reading of a poignant, funny memoir, capturing the dread experienced by 
any schoolgirl who's not at their best on the games field. 


Afternoon Play - Sex after Death by Mark Lawson
*******Pippa wants a baby. But when her husband proves unable to help, she determines 
to access the sperm of a deceased former boyfriend. But his mother has other ideas.


Afternoon Play - Second Chances 1.3 - The Transfer by Tony Green.
******Series of plays about adoption, part of the BBC Family Wanted Campaign
Struggling with pressures from all sides, single mum Maggie is finding it difficult to cope, 
and her young son Brandon is feeling the strain.

Afternoon Play - Second Chances 2.3 - Between by Zosia Wand.
******Eight-year-old Brandon and his little sister Kerry-Anne have been placed with foster parents 
while their social worker Karen searches for the right adoptive parents, but is she ready to let go?


Afternoon Play - Second Chances 3.3 - I Ran for Miles by Amanda Dalton
******Carol and Stephen want to adopt, but will Stephen's past jeopardise things for them?


Afternoon Play - Red in Tooth and Claw by Simon Bovey
********A dead sheep on a farm may be an everyday occurrence, but when young Dan 
finds the body he sets out on a road that leads to family tragedy.


Afternoon Play - Puzzle Women by Gill Adams
******A young woman tracks down the former Stasi man who spied on her and had her father imprisoned.


Afternoon Play - Sparkle by Colin Hough
******Fiftysomething TV presenter Evelyn Sparkle is afraid of losing both her job and her husband 
to glamorous young co-presenter Tina Shine. But her outlook changes dramatically with the arrival 
of a suave Frenchman called Michel.


Afternoon Play - The Running Lady By Eryl Maynard
******Two women run for widely different reasons. Geraldine runs in the middle of the night; 
partially to maintain her sanity and selfhood in a tempestuous marriage; and partially 
because of Susan Hyland. She remembers from childhood how Susan used run 
to the station each day to meet a husband who never turned up.


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 - The Wrong Hero? by Mark Burgess
*******Mark Burgess's drama re-imagines the circumstances surrounding the 
death of film star Leslie Howard, whose plane was shot down by 
                       German fighters in 1943.






Afternoon Play - Windscale 1.2 by Paul Dodgson
Afternoon Play - Windscale 2.2
******based on Britain's worst nuclear accident in October 1957, researched from government documents 
and from interviews with surviving staff from the plant 
Thirty years after the fire, some deeply disturbing connections become apparent.


Afternoon Play - Sparkle by Colin Hough
******Fiftysomething TV presenter Evelyn Sparkle is afraid of losing both her job and her husband to 
glamorous young co-presenter Tina Shine. But her outlook changes dramatically 
                            with the arrival of a suave Frenchman called Michel.


Afternoon Play - What We Did on our Holidays by Neil Rhodes
******An attempt to make the annual holiday a more spontaneous affair takes Ed and his family to unexpected places.


Afternoon Play - Well, That's One Way Of Looking At It by Brenda Gilhooly
******A comedy of self deception, in which a wife, a husband and his mistress show 
just how differently three people can interpret the same situation.


Afternoon Play - The Wedding Vortex by Elizabeth Lewis
******When Esther starts to plan her wedding, she doesn't realise how many choices are involved, 
nor how many other people want to make those choices for her


Afternoon Play - Too Up Too Down by Jim Poyser
******Jacky is a palaeontologist, so why did he become an estate agent? 
He was also crazy about Ursula, so how did he end up marrying her sister?


Afternoon Play - Tiaan by Rupi Dhami and Annalisa Hounsome
******Two sisters are travelling across the globe to be reunited with their mother in rural India 
for the festival of Tiaan, a tradition which celebrates the bond between mothers and daughters. 
But Rani, the youngest, has a secret and is dreading the moment when her mother discovers the truth.


Afternoon Play - Talk by Mark Wilson
******It is 1854. In the Criminal Wing of Bethlem Hospital for the Insane, painter Richard Dadd and 
poet Emily Clayton are caught in the middle, as two rival doctors seek to reform the treatment of the mentally ill.


Afternoon Play - Violence and the Big Male Voice by Gwyn Thomas
******Alick Rowe's dramatisation of Gwyn Thomas' comic tale of passion, ballroom 
dancing and male voice choirs, set in South Wales in the 1930s.


Afternoon Play - Dreaming in Africa by Mike Harris
******The story of Stewart Gore Brown, the only white man to receive a state funeral 
                           in a black African country, and the women he loved.



Afternoon Play - One Foot in the Cuckoo's Nest by Ian Macpherson and Magi Gibson
******For more than two decades, Theo Sheridan and his colleague Bill have enjoyed a leisurely 
existence as the Edinburgh-based correspondents of the Irish Mail. But their comfortable 
lives are shattered by the arrival of a new editor.


Afternoon Play - Telling the Bees by Rebecca Trick-Walker
******After the death of her husband, May struggles to come to terms with her grief. Solace is at hand, 
but from an unexpected quarter - and only if May can summon the courage to face some long-held fears.



Afternoon Play - The Winged Lions by Angus Graham-Campbell 
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Afternoon Play - The Second Best Bed by Christopher Green
******A feisty woman has taken to her bed in the spare room and she is not getting up - ever. 
She's 39 and has decided that she is not having children. She claims her boyfriend is in denial, 
                        though in reality he is in Zurich.



Afternoon Play - Meryl the Mounted by Colin Hough
******Meryl is a mounted police constable with an unhealthy love for her horse; 
Aiden is a young stable boy with an unhealthy love for Meryl. 
When their sergeant is found murdered, the pair investigate.
Cute and Funny. 


Afternoon Play - A Passionate Dance by Jennifer Collier
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Afternoon Play - Cold by Tony Bagley
******Comedy, set in 1959 at the Common Cold Unit. Medical researchers are certain that a cure for the cold 
is just around the corner. But they haven't foreseen a revolution within their own walls.


Afternoon Play - A Wedding in Krakow by Ewa Banaszkiewicz
******Staszek returns to Krakow for his daughter's wedding. He has been dreading the visit, 
tortured by guilt and carrying a secret that he would like to keep.


Afternoon Play - Sand by Tilly Black
******As tensions mount after President Nasser's nationalisation of the Suez Canal in 1956, 
a ten-year-old's holiday diary tells a poignant human story.


Afternoon Play - Whispering by Campbell Armstrong.
******Psychological thriller about adultery and murder 


Afternoon Play - Sara by Melissa Murray
*******the daughter of poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge interrupts a coach journey and decides 
to stay on in her room at an inn, leaving her family her husband and children to fend for themselves 
as she tries to cure herself of the addiction that had so blighted her father's life.


Afternoon Play - Zander's Boat by Grace Barnes
*******The first thing the three women of the quiet and mostly lovely "Zander's Boat" do is explain the importance 
of storytelling in the Shetland Islands, where Grace Barnes's short poetic drama is set. It's a place 
of fantastic legends -- seals that can transform themselves into humans, for instance (they're called selkie folk). 
"We paint the air with our words," one of the women says. - Washington Post


Afternoon Play - Young Ornithologist's Guide by Jyll Bradley 
*******Matilda prefers birdsong to conversation, then she sees something she shouldn't. 
                                                An ornithological detective story.


Afternoon Play - The Young Ambassadors by Angela Pelham
*******Angela Pelham was one of a group of British children evacuated to America during the Second World War. 
Her letters home were published in a book on which this play is based. They tell the story of Angela's transition 
from childhood to adulthood and of her meetings with an extraordinary range of luminaries, 
                          including Edward and Mrs Simpson.


Afternoon Play - Past Forgetting by Angela Huth.
****** Jane and Arthur have been married for nearly 30 years. 
                      Should a blemish buried in the past be allowed to destroy the future?



Afternoon Play - The Past Is A Foreign Country by Louise Page. 
******A play exploring the difficulties faced by wartime evacuees when they returned from the countryside to their families



Pavement Stars by Gillian & Catrin Clarke
******The lives of a Cardiff street trader and a busker are suddenly bound together as they work their pitches.

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