| Joe Orton's controversial first theatre play, Entertaining Mr Sloane, receives its premiere radio broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on Sunday 15 April.
Entertaining Mr Sloane is directed by John Tydeman, who played a key role in Orton's early career and was the first professional to read the text of Sloane.
It stars Olivier Award-winning Daniel Evans as Sloane; Geraldine James as Ruth; Dudley Sutton as Dadda, who played Sloane in the original 1964 production of the play; and Clive Francis as Ed, who also previously played Sloane in the TV production of the play. |
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| Later plays include Henrik Ibsen's The Wild Duck and The Overwhelming by JT Rogers, directed by Max Stafford-Clark, former artistic director of the Royal Court.
Considered by many to be Ibsen's finest work, The Wild Duck, tells the story of Gregers
Werle, a young man who returns to his hometown and is reunited with his childhood friend Hjalmar
Ekdal.
Over the course of the play Ekdals domestic bliss is destroyed as idealist Gregers searches for
The Truth. Paterson Joseph plays Hjalmar and Michael Maloney plays
Gregors.
The Overwhelming, which opened at the National Theatre to widespread acclaim in May 2006, is a gripping drama set in Rwanda in early 1994 about an American family who find themselves alarmingly out of their depth in a country on the brink of genocide.
The cast is the same as the theatre production, including Jude Akuwudike, Miles Anderson and Chipo Chung.
Other plays to be broadcast this Spring include an adaptation of Nobel Prize for Literature winning author, Jose Saramago's book Blindness – the story of a plague which leads to loss of sight infects a whole country's population, as the epidemic spreads chaos ensues and the government quarantines the affected in an unused asylum.
One woman, a doctor's wife, remains unaffected and becomes the eyes for those around her, guiding them through a city which is grinding to a halt. |
