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Performance: Absolute Hell

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Rodney Ackland's black comedy features a cast of major artists and is being shown again as a tribute to the author who died in 1991, shortly after its first transmission. It is the last in this season of studio dramas. Set in a club in Soho, the play is a funny and desolating account of life in bomb-blasted London in the weeks before the 1945 election.
Producer Simon Curtis Director Anthony Page .
STEREO; TELETEXT SUBTITLES: p 888 dl W

Contributors

Author:
Rodney Ackland
Producer:
Simon Curtis
Director:
Anthony Page
Christine Foskett:
Judi Dench
Doris:
Susan Porrett
Fifi:
Susannah Morley
Butch:
Paul Bircharp
Julia Shillitoe:
Sylvia Barter
Hugh Marriner:
Bill Nighy
Siegfried Shrager:
Ronald Pickup
Elizabeth Collier:
Francesca Annis
Mrs Marriner:
Eileen Page
Michael Crowley:
Gregory Floy
Maurice Hussey:
Charles Gray
Sam Mitchum:
Nathaniel Parker
Lettice Willis:
Moyra Fraser
Cyril Clatworthy:
William Osborne
Bill:
Susan Brown
RB Monody:
Betty Marsden
Madge:
Shelagh Fraser
Douglas Eden:
Anthony Calf

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