Panáček v říši mluveného slova stránky přátel rozhlasových her a mluveného slova vůbec

B.S. Johnson. Rozhlasová adaptace Graham White. Režie Mary Peate.

Osoby a obsazení: Bryan (Martin Freeman), Tony (Patrick Kennedy), Wendy (Claire Rushbrook), June (Jacqueline Defferary), Tonyho otec (Sean Baker), záchranář /Tonyho matka (Christine Kavanagh), hlasatel /reportér (Tony Bell), bytná / úřednice (Sally Orrock), majitel penzionu / reportér (Jude Akuwudike), úředník / zpravodajský hlas (Lloyd Thomas), obchodník / úředník (Sam Dale), okolojdoucí dítě (Joseph Dudgeon), Tonyho syn (Greta Dudgeon).

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2011. Premiéra 2. 10. 2011 (BBC 3, 20:30 h.).

Pozn.: Cena za adaptaci (Innovation Award). – „But I know this city…Tony. This town. His town. Their town.“Adaptation of B. S. Johnson’s 1969 novel in which a sports journalist travels to a strange city to cover a football match, only to discover it was the city where he first met his friend Tony who has died young of cancer. We follow the journalist from his arrival at the train station, through lunch, to the match and on the journey home, as different memories of his friend are triggered.

B. S. Johnson is not a household name, but his novels are beloved by a growing number of people who have discovered him and he has something of a cult status. Renewed interest in B.S. Johnson came partly from the publication of Jonathan Coe’s celebrated biography of Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant.

Tim Fountain Rozhlasová hra. Režie Iain Mackness.

Osoby a obsazení: Henry Willson (Bette Bourne), Rock Hudson (Michael Xavier) a další.

Nastudoval Manchester for The Independent Online v roce 2011 (46 min.). K poslechu zde

Pozn.: Cena BBC Radio Awards – Best Online Only Audio Drama.

Lit.: anonym: Made in Manchester, Red and Savvy triumph at BBC Audio Drama Awards. In web How-Do, 31. 1. 2012 (článek).

Pozn. 2: Rock Hudson was the biggest screen idol in 1959s Los Angeles – the ultimate Hollywood hunk.  But his career was perpetually under threat from Confidential Magazine, every queer actor’s nemesis: and only one man stood between stardom and oblivion.

ROCK is the story of Henry Willson, the man who made a star of Rock Hudson; the man who would do anything to protect his money-spinning protégé.  It is a behind the scenes story of fame, greed and desire set in a Hollywood obsessed with star billing and the bottom line.

William Henry Hudson. Hudba Ross Hughes a Esben Tjalve, hrají autoři. Trubka Daniel Weitz. Střih Eileen Horne. Režie Clive Brill.

Osoby a obsazení: Richard (David Tennant), Paquita (Denise Gough), Marcos / majordomus (Danny Webb), Toribia / babička (Carol Macready), Isidora (Lizzie McInnerney), Herdsman / Allday (Nigel Cooke), Paquitin otec /Winchcombe (Richard Durden), Monica / Donna Mercedes (Jacey Salles), Cloud / Blanco Major (Nicholas Murchie), Epifanio / Chillingwoth (Chuk Iwuji), Juez / barman / Blass (Trevor Martin), Cleta / matka (Jane Slavin), Herdsmanova dcera / Margerita (Beth Cooke), Anita (Grace Horbury), Herdsmanův chlapec (Danny Concha).

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2011. Premiéra 16. 7. 2011 (BBC Radio 4, 14:15 h.). Ke stažení zde

Pozn.: Published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one of the finest craftsmen of prose in English literature and as a thinker on ecological matters far ahead of his time.

In Davies‘ hands this ‚road novel‘ becomes a fast paced romp in the tradition of Tom Jones, with a dash of Don Quixote for good measure. It is an exuberant, wryly comic account of a young Englishman’s imprudent adventures, set against a background of political strife in nineteenth-century South America. Eloping with an Argentine girl, young Richard Lamb makes an implacable enemy of his teenage bride’s father. Leaving her behind, he goes ignorantly forth into the interior of the country to seek his fortune.

Whilst doing so he learns to hunt, ride, herd, love – even kill. On his way to becoming a man. Hemingway alluded to this book in his masterpiece „The Sun Also Rises“, claiming that „The Purple Land“ is ‚dangerous reading if read too late in life‘. Hopefully – it doesn’t make for dangerous listening!   A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.

Hugh Hughes. Rozhlasová hra. Režie James Robinson.

Účinkují Hugh Hughes, Sioned Rowlands, Shôn Dale-Jones a Jill Norman.

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2011. Premiéra 9. 9. 2011 (BBC Radio 4,

Pozn.: Cena za nejlepší scénář na BBC Radio Awards 2011.

Lit.: Robinson, James:Afternoon Play: Floating. In web BBC Radio 4 Blog, 9. 9. 2011 (rozhovor + ukázka). Cit.:  Editor’s note: The Radio Times described this fantastical Afternoon Play: Floating as „a maritime Passport to Pimlico, with the locals relishing their unexpected autonomy and selecting a leader“. The Guardian review said that Floating has „a delightfully quirky presence, and a poignant conclusion“. Here on the blog James Robinson, the producer of Floating, talks to its creator Hugh Hughes – PM. (more…)

Katie Hims. První část rozhlasové trilogie. Režie Jessica Dromgoole.

Osoby a obsazení: vypravěč (Rosie Cavaliero), Alice (Alex Tregear), Queenie (Katie Angelou), Ray (Daniel Cooper), Jim (Daniel Rabin), pan Nightingale (Stuart McLoughlin), slečna Pearlová (Bethan Walker), slečna Stanwycková (Sally Orrock), pan Jones (Sean Baker), paní Jonesová (Joanna Monro).

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2011. Premiéra 3. 5. 2011 (BBC Radio 4, 14:15 h.). K poslechu zde

Pozn.: London, 1941, and Alice knows that to stop your children from being evacuated is to tantamount to siding with Hitler. The Wrong Label is part one of a trilogy of plays by acclaimed radio dramatist Katie Hims charting one family’s tragi-comic history of heartbreak and redemption. The trilogy won the 2011 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Drama, where Rosie Cavaliero also picked up the Best Actress award.

Katie Hims. Třetí hra z rozhlasové trilogie. Režie Jessica Dromgoole.

Osoby a obsazení: Ruthie (Rosie Cavaliero), Alice (Edna Doré), Ted (Gary Beadle), Vincent (Daniel Rabin), Marcus (Stuart McLoughlin), Ray (Sean Baker), Queenie (Jane Whittenshaw), Roseanna (Alex Tregear), Ella May (Joanna Monro) recepční (Sally Orrock).

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2011.  Premiéra 17. 5. 2011 (BBC Radio 4, 14:15 h.).

Pozn.: Cena pro Rosie Cavaliero za nejlepší herecký výkon.

For Alice’s 100th birthday present, her granddaughter Ruthie sets out to put her family back together again. The final play in Katie Hims‘ trilogy of heartbreak and redemption.

Edna Doré stars in A Telegram from the Queen, the final play in this trilogy by acclaimed radio dramatist Katie Hims charting one family’s tragi-comic history of heartbreak and redemption. The trilogy won the 2011 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Drama, where Rosie Cavaliero also picked up the Best Actress award.

Murray Gold. Hudba Murray Gold. Režie Jeremy Mortimer.

Osoby a obsazení: Franz Kafka (David Tennant), otec (David Fleeshman), matka (Joanna Monro), Milena Jesenská (Naomi Frederick), Felice (Jessica Raine), Dora (Emerald O’Hanrahan), barman / zpěvák / lékař (Trevor Allan Davies), kolportér  / muž (Brian Bowles).

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2011. Premiéra 24. 4. 2011 (BBC  Radio 3, 20:00 h.). Ke stažení zde

Pozn.: Cena pro Davida Tennanta za nejlepší herecký výkon 2011. – Murray Gold’s new play starts from the suitably Kafkaesque premise that Franz Kafka finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life. The play – or is it the musical? – introduces Kafka and the audience to some of the key characters in his life, Milena Jesenska, Dora Diamant and Felice Bauer. (more…)

Katie Hims. Druhá část rozhlasové trilogie. Režie Jessica Dromgoole.

Osoby a obsazení: vypravěč (Rosie Cavaliero), Ruthie (Shannon Flynn), Vincent (Ceallach Spellman), Marcus (Elliot Griffiths), táta (Ralph Ineson), Ray (Daniel Rabin), Alice (Jane Whittenshaw), Queenie (Sally Orrock), PC O’Hara (Stuart McLoughlin), DI Driscoll (Sean Baker).

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2011. Premiéra 10. 5. 2011 (BBC Radio 4, 14:15 h.).

Pozn.: It’s 1979, and it’s not the first time that Ruthie’s mother Queenie has gone missing, but usually she leaves a note. The second in Katie Hims‘ trilogy of plays. The Year My Mother Went Missing is the second in a trilogy of plays by acclaimed radio dramatist Katie Hims charting one family’s tragi-comic history of heartbreak and redemption. The trilogy won the 2011 BBC Audio Drama Award for Best Drama, where Rosie Cavaliero also picked up the Best Actress award.

Pozn. 2: Hra získala cenu za nejlepší hru v BBC Audio Drama Awards.