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An annual collection of plays from broadcasters around the world, all based on one theme

The 2010 Worldplay season begins this week. It is an annual collection of plays from broadcasters around the world, all based on one theme. This year’s theme is money.

The 2010 Worldplay season begins this week. It is an annual collection of plays from broadcasters around the world, all based on one theme.

This year’s theme is money and the plays have been made by BBC World Service and broadcasters in Australia, New Zealand, America, Canada and Ireland.

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Love and Animals

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A mid-wife/mid-life crisis in the affairs of a very poorly-parented individual

Love and Animals charts a mid-wife/mid-life crisis in the affairs of a very poorly-parented individual. By Philip Davison

The 2010 Worldplay season - an annual collection of plays from broadcasters around the world all based on the theme of money - continues with this LA Theatre Works’ production recorded in front of a live audience.

Love and Animals charts a mid-wife/mid-life crisis in the affairs of a very poorly-parented individual.

Failed entrepreneur Sonny Mullens finds his relationships and his revenues are in freefall. 

He's chasing the wife he loved who's left him, the creep she left him for and a win on the horses. All of which brings him to successive police interviews with a detective who becomes almost a spiritual director. 

Sonny's absent father is hugely present throughout, if only as a kind of admonitory hologram, while his institutionalised mother is either mad, bad, sad or all three at once.

Written by Philip Davison.

Directed by Aidan Mathews.

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