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Afternoon Theatre: Savages

BBC Radio 4
on BBC Radio 4 FM

by Christopher Hampton
with Ian Holm, Tom Conti, Michael Pennington and Anna Massey

A new treatment of Christopher Hampton's famous stage play, re-written by him specifically for radio. The main action of the play is set in Brazil in 1970. and deals, with the kidnapping of an embassy official by revolutionaries, which is sharply contrasted with the horror of the bombing of the Cintas Largas tribe during the performance of their funeral ritual in 1963. In Christopher Hampton's hands this becomes an intensely moving and vital social drama.

(Shorter version of a production first broadcast on Radio 3)
(medium only)

Contributors

Author/Adapted by:
Christopher Hampton
Director:
Guy Veasen
West:
Ian Holm
Carlos:
Tom Conti
Mrs West:
Anna Massey
Crawshaw:
Michael Pennington
Elmer Penn:
Paul Maxwell
Brigg:
Norman Shelley
Kumai:
Neville Jason
Source: Radio Times

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