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... nism, talking to the future. Mostly. Edgar strikes a less positive note. He denigrates the Western model of democracy (America is what you get when you set the people free) while charting the downward spiralling of an egalitarian dream (one of the ...
... delivered in a voice quivering with meaning and yet analytical, like a forerun ner of Alistair Cook. Instead of Letter from America, this was Letter from Russell Street, where in resided the infamous Harry Homer (Anton Lesser) who took on the identity of ...
... of Arts, was appar ently intended to show the Rome of 44BC as foreshadowing power- hungry and faction-riven contem porary America with specific parallels like the Kennedy/Caesar assassination. But rather than the Camelot of early sixties USA, the impression ...
... drama on the demise of silent movies, Talkers (R4, Friday, June 26). Movie boss Jack Warner (Bradley Lavelle), touring America in the late twenties to launch his talking picture The Jazz Singer was pitted against rakish Irish- American bandleader Ronnie ...
... the bells and incense of Catholicism, gave the production a cluttered, if exotic, feel a La Dolce Vita transported to the Americas with Vadinho gadding around like a Restoration drama romeo. Mick Martin's moralistic Life's a Sport (BBC Manchester for R4 ...
... being upbraided for her lack of professionalism. Louise (Joanna Moore) is a 35-year-old divorcee and mother whose husband in America poses a constant threat. From the outset, Westway pitched the mix well, with mun dane chatter giving way to an excellent opening ...
... problem. The Young Ambassadors (R4, Wednesday, May 13) was a dramatisation of the letters of a wartime child evacuated to America. Endearing as they must have been to her parents, the dramatisation by Jennifer Curry failed to produce insight or depth. ...
... Produced to mark Miller's 80th birthday, this 46-year-old play was the first and most definitive marker of his thesis that America has been on a downward slope since the Depression. But percep tions like: The only thing you got in this world is what you ...
... between the plight of the women of Troy, captured, exiled and enslaved, and that of the more recent black slave trade to America. First performed in 415BC, and heard here in a new translation by Brendan Kennelly, the play's themes were remark ably co ...
... behaviour that was out of step with society. Here an elderly man whose gay son had just died of an AIDS related illness in America admitted that at the funeral he had hidden himself at the back of the mourners. He found a metaphor for his bewilderment of ...
... on without turning every percep tion into dialogue. Mohicans was set in 1757 during the war between Britain and France for America. Two girls (Helen McCrory and Naomi Radcliffe) with their protector Captain Heyward (Philip Franks) journey through the forests ...
... Oliver Parker. There was a lot of talk of women's trou bles* and down there,' which one character said reminded him of America: I know it's there but I don't have to go and see it if I don 't want to.' Everywhere in Martyn Wade's powerful Operama play ...