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John Hopkins: Plays of Today: 1: Beyond the Sunrise

on BBC Two England

Six of Britain's top TV playwrights were given the opportunity to write the plays they had always wanted to write. The six, including Alun Owen, Barry Bermange, Keith Dewhurst, James Forsyth, and John Mortimer, have between them won about every award in the book.
John Hopkins's play Beyond the Sunrise is about two African politicians - one a modern politician, the other the guardian of traditional values - who are caught up in a conflict of loyalties which ends in bloodshed and sacrifice
with Johnny Sekka as The Chief, Calvin Lockhart as Akanu, Joseph O'Conor as Aston
John Hopkins - his career and his future - see pages 52-55
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
John Hopkins
Musical director and technical adviser:
Desmond Tay
Make-up:
Sandra Shepherd
Costume:
Susan Wheal
Script editor:
James Brabazon
Designer:
Tony Abbott
Producer:
Ronald Travers
Director:
James Ferman
The Chief:
Johnny Sekka
Akanu:
Calvin Lockhart
Aston:
Joseph O'Conor
The President:
James Fuller
Shabundi:
Willie Jonah
Nguru:
Zakes Mokae
Kahami:
Ram John Holder
Matadu:
Tommy Eytle
The Chief's Mother:
Jumoke Debayo
The Chief's Wife:
Alicia Deane
[Actor]:
Brylo Forde
[Actor]:
Dick Quaye
[Actress]:
Ayodele Coker
Dancers:
The Herbert Ogunde Dancers

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