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Afternoon Play: The Yellow Wallpaper

on BBC Radio 4 FM

A play written in the 1890s by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, one of the most commanding feminists of her time, in which a woman is taken to the country by her husband in order to cure her of an unnamed illness after the birth of a child. Instructed to have total rest and emptiness of mind, the woman sinks into deep depression. Alone in the yellow-wallpapered nursery of a rented house, she descends into madness.

Jane is played by Charlotte Emmerson.

Contributors

Author:
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Music:
Gary Yershon
Producer/Director:
Susan Roberts
Jane:
Charlotte Emmerson

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