Afternoon Plays XIV
  
  


Afternoon Play - Auguste Levasseur - Chef Des Claqueurs by Mike 
******"it takes place in the opera houses of 1830’s Paris, where former street urchin Levasseur sent in his gang 
to slow hand clap or ecstatically cheer performances depending on the money and sexual favours he received 
from producers, librettists and singers. An opera’s success and failure was thus in the hand of Levasseur"
                                                                             ... until a rival gang shows up.


Afternoon Play - To Serve Them All My Days 1.5 by RF Delderfield
Afternoon Play - To Serve Them All My Days 2.5
Afternoon Play - To Serve Them All My Days 3.5
Afternoon Play - To Serve Them All My Days 4.5
Afternoon Play - To Serve Them All My Days 5.5
******TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS is R.F. Delderfield's epic study of life at an English 
boarding school between the two wars. It is a story related by David Powlett-Jones, the son 
of a Welsh miner, whose father and brother died in a pit accident, a socialist whose politics 
mellow as he ages. The victim of severe shell-shock after three nightmarish years of service 
in the battlefields of WW I, David is advised by a doctor to take up a teaching post at 
Bamfylde School in the rural south west of England.

Not least, TO SERVE THEM ALL MY DAYS provides behind-the-scenes glimpses of the struggles 
for power that rage in an enclosed environment where personalities must inevitably clash.



Afternoon Play - The Killing of the TSR2 by Robin Brooks
******The true story of the struggle to build TSR2, the British-built world-beating fighter jet that never was. 
Years ahead of its time technologically, it was scrapped by the Labour government in 1965, 
                                                 after just one supersonic test flight.



Afternoon Play - The Journey by Richard Monks
******A chance sighting on a news report leads to an extraordinary reunion between two siblings 
and the father they cremated four years previously. A play exploring the emotional hinterland of reconciliation



Afternoon Play -  Captain Nolan's Chance by Kingsley Amis
******A work of stirring patriotism: The Charge of the Light Brigade. Somebody blundered.



Afternoon Play - The Lonely by Paul Gallico
******Does a man marry the girl he idolizes or the one he loves? Here is the story 
of a young American Air Force lieutenant who became involved with an English 
girl during his World War II service--only to find himself torn between his passion 
for her and his promise to marry his sweetheart back home.



Afternoon Play - Some Secluded Glade by Hugh Costello
******Psychological thriller. Following a fall and severe concussion, 
Tom Beaumont's grasp on reality begins to weaken, 
                                   with terrifying results for his family.



Afternoon Play - Raft to Bondi by Ian Kershaw
******It's July 4th 1990 and the country is football crazy because England 
are playing West Germany in the semi final of the World Cup. Everyone 
is glued to the TV, except for 15-year-old Jim who's got other things 
               on his mind. He's ripe for a bit of an adventure.



Afternoon Play - False Pretences by Steve May
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Afternoon Play - Passing Through by Rhys Adrian
******What can two very different men learn from each other in a chance pub encounter?



Afternoon Play - Postcards From a Cataclysm 
******Nine short plays about global annihilation. As an asteroid hurtles towards earth, 
the planet's population prepares for the end of the world. Then the strangest things start to happen.



Afternoon Play - Buffalo Bill and Little Mattie Dyer by Peter Spafford
******1903 Cardigan Fields, Leeds. Buffalo Bill, slayer of the Lacota, the most famous 
American in the world, disembarks at Armley station with his Wild West show. 
They will stay in Leeds just five days, 
                        but that is long enough to change the life of 15-year-old Matty Dyer.



Afternoon Play - The Ditch by Paul Evans
******Recorded on location, this chilling tale is written and 
                      narrated by Paul Evans.

Tom Saunders, a wildlife sound recordist, goes missing, 
leaving only a collection of recordings and a notebook. 
These fall into the hands of his radio producer, who tries 
to piece together what has happened. His quest leads him 
back to the disturbing aural landscape of Slaughton Ditch, 
                     where an obsession with hidden sounds has 
                                        terrifying and fatal consequences.



Afternoon Play -  No Trampy Immigrants by Eoin McNamee
******Inspired by events which took place in Belfast in the summer of 2009, Eoin McNamee's play 
tells the story of a community reeling from a shocking racist attack.

A riot takes place at the height of marching season, but not the type of riot you might expect.




Afternoon Play - The Right Ingredients by Pat Davis
******When her world falls to pieces, Lisa resorts to using other people's shopping lists 
as a means of structuring her life. Her hope is that she will eventually get all the right 
ingredients for the cake she needs to bake. A delicate and beautiful story of 
                 a woman coming to terms with a heart-breaking bereavement.




Afternoon Play - The Ca'd'oro Cafe  by Donna Franceschild 
******Dark and moving comedy about love, money and desperation.




Afternoon Play - Carbon Cleansing by Sophie Woolley
******When ex-banker Tabitha knocks 'green' activist Will off his bicycle with her 'Chelsea Tractor', 
two worlds literally collide. A tale of ecological responsibility, guilt and grimy hot tubs.



Afternoon Play - Higher by Joyce Bryant
******Karen is the new head of the Geography Department - renamed Geographical Tourism - 
at Hayborough University, which isn't quite part of the elite Russell Group of top universities. 
In fact it ranks 132nd. It is open day for the department and Karen is keen that she attracts the right students.



Afternoon Play - The Jonestown Letters by Sarah Daniels
******The compelling true story of two sisters, Annie and Carolyn Moore, who died in the 
mass suicide at Jonestown in Guyana on November 18th 1978. Over 900 people died that day, 
followers of Peoples Temple and its leader, Jim Jones. This documentary drama is one 
family's experience of Peoples Temple, which began with the highest ideals. It's told through 
the actual letters between Carolyn & Annie and their parents back home. With contributions 
from their sister Rebecca Moore, and music performed by Peoples Temple Choir.

The letters are abridged by Sarah Daniels.



Afternoon Play - Listen to the Words by Ed Hime
******Tim has a problem with empathy, and justifies tapping fellow student Sophie's phone 
as the only way to understand her. When it all goes wrong, he books the media room of the 
secure unit where he is being held and creates a broadcast for his college radio station.



Afternoon Play - Maine Road by Sarah McDonald Hughes
******As the last game at Manchester City's Maine Road stadium approaches, 
a family in mourning for a grandmother face their own struggle to survive.



Afternoon Play - Mr Larkin's Awkward Day by Chris Harrald
******a light-hearted look at a chaotic day in the life of an emerging poet.
One morning in September 1957, Philip Larkin receives a very official looking letter which sends him into a spin.



Afternoon Play - My Romantic History by DC Jackson
******Poignant and witty drama about love and memory.



Afternoon Play - Solace by Andrea Earl.
******Maggie Fortune is a respectable, middle-class mother and grandmother with a dependency 
on prescribed tranquilisers that is taking over her life.



Afternoon Play - The Waterloo Model by Peter Roberts
******based on fact. Young Lieutenant Siborne (played by David Birrell) is commissioned 
by the army in the 1830s to create a model of the battle of Waterloo, celebrating the famous 
victory, giving the public an idea of what it looked like. He starts off with great enthusiasm 
and confidence. Both are soon undermined. The Whig government thinks the project will 
glorify the leader of the Opposition, the Duke of Wellington. Wellington thinks Siborne is 
putting too many Prussians on his battlefield. 
                  (The actual model survives - it's in the National Army Museum, Chelsea)



Afternoon Play - A Catapult and a Lady's Spin by Sheila Goff
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Afternoon Play - A Manager's Wife by Dermot Bolger
******When a particular guest checks into Finbar's Hotel on the last night of Johnny Farrell's 
management, his past life comes back to confront him



Afternoon Play - About Colin by Robert Shearman
******Two ladies meet for lunch in different restaurants. Their only link is that they've both been married to Colin.



Afternoon Play - Another Part Of The Wood by Steve Jacobs
******A couple move to rural France to get away from the rat race. For a while everything is fine. 
Then Bob meets local beauty Sylvie, whose husband Benoit is older, suspicious, and armed.



Afternoon Play - Another Shakespeare by Martin Wade
******A forger keeps finding Shakespearean manuscripts.... 



Afternoon Play - The Art Class by Neil Brand
******In 1939, the Nazis were rumored to be developing an atomic bomb. The United States initiated 
its own program under the Army Corps of Engineers in June 1942. America needed to build an atomic 
weapon before Germany or Japan beat them to it. This is the story behind the building of the world's
first nuclear pile, and the scientists involved: the Manhattan Project...it's worth quoting the postscript 
to the play, which helps put things in context:

...........In April 1945 Leo Szilard again wrote to President Roosevelt. He pointed out that with Germany 
defeated, and momentary advantage gained by dropping the bomb on Japan would be outweighed by
the global, moral and political rifts such a weapon would cause. He begged the President not to drop 
the bomb on a live target, but to make a second, more public test to which the representatives of the
Japanese government would be invited. The letter was still unopened on Roosevelt's desk when he died 
on April 12th. Three months later, plutonium, created in the nuclear pile, was successfully detonated 
at Los Alamos. President Truman was subsequently advised by a panel of scientists including 
Robert Oppenheimer, Arthur Compton and Enrico Fermi. The bomb was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6th,
destroying two-thirds of the city." 



Afternoon Play - The Art of Love by Andrew Rissik
******In the second play of Andrew Rissik's trilogy, the Roman poet Ovid is sent into exile when 
his allegedly subversive ideas about love, freedom and new ways of living and thinking 
                appear to challenge the authority of the aging Emperor Augustus. 



Afternoon Play - How to leave Badenweiler by Michael Butt
******Drama about the demise of Anton Chekhov



Afternoon Play - Before Your Very Eyes by Don Taylor 
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Afternoon Play - Chef des Claquers
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Afternoon Play - The Cowboy and the Tenderfoot by Alan Wilkenson
******a fascinating portrait of Owen Wister, who wrote "The Virginian" in the last days of the Wild West; 




Afternoon Play - The July Ghost by A.S. Byatt
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Afternoon Play - The Fish by Arnold Bennett
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Afternoon Play - Fireworks at the Villa Lucia by Paul Mendelson
******When Pete, a struggling TV writer, and his wife Julie find themselves staying in the same 
Italian villa as cult movie director David Joe Jakes, he tries to sell his dog-eared screenplay as 
the true story of how he met his wife. The fireworks begin when he pressgangs his wife into 
pretending to be a fiery, psychotic, Venezuelan ex-soap star, while he masquerades as her psychoanalyst.



Afternoon Play - Fighting Shaw's Corner by Lesley Bruce
******George Bernard Shaw's brisk, respectable secretary's plans to be
First Lady in his life are thwarted by his dragon housekeeper Mrs
Laden, and Lady Nancy Astor, recently retired from parliament and
in need of a "big project".



Afternoon Play - Family Soup by Elizabeth Lewis
******Charlie's ability to write his weekly family newspaper column is sorely tested when his family 
decamp to Italy, leaving him with a hyperactive father-in-law and a tame rat.



Afternoon Play - Excuse My Dust by Terry Wale
******A bioplay about Dorothy Parker.



Afternoon Play - English Rose by Jenny Mitchell
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Afternoon Play - Elise and The Child by Arnold Bennett
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Afternoon Play - Cuban Solo by David Pownall
******The tragic story of the murder of Caturla, one of Cuba's most influential composers. 
He was the first to combine black and white Cuban music, paving the way for today's famous 
Afro-Cuban sounds. The play is based on new evidence found after investigative research in the north of the country



Afternoon Play - Cardamom by Leila Abdoulaye & Sarah Phelps
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