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22 results found for '"Afternoon Play"' in Series.

  • Shakespeare’s Vortigern and Rowena (2010 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Marc Beeby
    Producer
    Marc Beeby

    Radio play written by Melissa Murray and directed for broadcasting by Marc Beeby. In 1796, Richard Sheridan (Lorcan Cranitch), playwright and owner of the Drury Lane theatre stages a ‘lost’ Shakespeare...

  • Shakespeare à la Carte (2009 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Producer
    Karen Rose

    Radio version of a theatre production devised by Jonathan Cullen and Richard Hahlo, based on an original idea by Pippa Smith. Actors from the theatre company Hydrocracker, masquerading as waiters in a pizza...

  • Johnny Shakespeare (2007 Television)

    Series
    Afternoon Play, The
    Director
    Jim Cartwright

    Television drama written and directed by Jim Cartwright. Johnny comes from a broken home and lives with his alcoholic, bingo-addicted gran on a housing estate. He is illiterate. He meets Diane, a drama...

  • Lessons for the Loveless (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Pauline Harris
    Producer
    Pauline Harris

    Radio play written by Richard Cameron. Set in a Manchester high school it focuses on the lives of four disaffected teenagers and their drama teacher who are about to stage an improvised play based on...

  • Accolades (2007 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Producer
    Gordon House; Nick Russell Pavier

    Radio play written by Christopher William Hill. Ian Richardson plays Oxford academic A. L. Rowse, best known for his overly confident identification of "the Dark Lady" of Shakespeare’s sonnets. The play...

  • In a Questionable Shape (2006 Radio)

    aka: Daunt and Dervish

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Colin Guthrie
    Producer
    Colin Guthrie

    Radio detective series. In this episode, the Daunt and Dervish Detective Agency is involved in a case of blackmail that takes Josephine and Susan back to the Old Vic Theatre and its current production of...

  • Song for Edmond Shakespeare, A (2005 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Stephen Canny

    Radio drama. London, 1607. A penniless young actor roams drunkenly through London believing his life to be a failure. A failure made more painful by the fact that he is the younger brother of the more...

  • Scenes of Seduction (2005 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Director
    Ned Chaillet
    Producer
    Ned Chaillet

    Radio play written by Timberlake Wertenbaker and directed by Ned Chaillet. Five-scene drama involving courting couples in various stages of life. The scene entitled ‘Summer’ rewrites the wooing scene of...

  • MacMorris (2004 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Producer
    Tanya Nash

    Radio drama. Comic fantasy by John Morrison in which some of the minor characters in Shakespeare’s plays have decided that they want bigger and better parts. A rebellion is led by Captain Macmorris.

  • Dizzy Spells (2004 Radio)

    Series
    Afternoon Play
    Producer
    Martin Jenkins (2)

    Radio play about the flamboyant life of the young Benjamin Disraeli. References to Shakespeare and his plays are made during the family’s discussions about Benjamin’s fitness as a Member of Parliament....