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Theatre 625: Play With a Tiger

on BBC Two England

by Doris Lessing
Starring Barbara Jefford as Anna
and John Turner as Dave, Michael Gough as Harry, Patricia Lawrence as Mary, Jeremy Burnham as Tom, Sharon Cathness as Janet

Anna, an Australian, widowed, thirtyish, lives in an Earls Court bedsitter. She is a freelance writer. In the same house is Mary, slightly older, beginning to depend on the bottle. The men who drop in are 'loners' too. Tom is stolid, rather pompous; Harry, an ageing philanderer with a wife at home; and Dave who, like Anna, is an expatriate...
This is the starting point of Doris Lessing's play.
(Colour)

Contributors

Writer:
Doris Lessing
Music:
Dudley Simpson
Designer:
John Cooper
Producer:
Michael Bakewell
Director:
Stuart Burge
Anna:
Barbara Jefford
Dave:
John Turner
Harry:
Michael Gough
Mary:
Patricia Lawrence
Tom:
Jeremy Burnham
Janet:
Sharon Cathness

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