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The Monday Play: Widows

on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Ariel Dorfman
translated from the Spanish by Stephen Kessler, and dramatised by Gregory Evans.
Greece, sometime in the recent part of its turbulent modern history: peasant women without men defy all attempts by the local military authority to stop them making conflicting claims over bodies that turn up in the river.
Although set in Greece, to escape Chilean censorship, the play is a thinly-disguised portrayal of the suffering of millions of peasants in Latin America today.
BBC Bristol. Stereo
(Re-broadcast next Saturday)

Contributors

Author:
Ariel Dorfman
Translated by:
Stephen Kessler
Dramatised by:
Gregory Evans
Director:
Brian Miller
Captain:
John Abineri
Orderly:
Steve Hodson
Lieutenant/Serguei:
Graham Blockey
Sofia:
Clare Kelly
Alexandra/Irene:
Natasha Pyne
Fidelia:
Abigail Docherty
Katherina:
Tessa Worsley
Yanina/Cecilia:
Melinda Walker
Alexis:
Miguel Perry
Fr Gabriel:
John Church
Hilda:
Pauline Letts
Doctor/Judge:
Ronald Herdman
Sergeant/Kastoria:
Jack Harding

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