Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist

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Charles Dance

Penelope Keith

Richard O'Callaghan

Nicholas Boulton

Jaimi Barbakoff

Roald Dahl

Stephen Sheridan

David Blount

Roald Dahl: Served with a Twist: My Lady Love, My Dove

My Lady Love, My Dove

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Charles Dance tells a darkly comic tale by the master of the bizarre. With Penelope Keith.

Fiercely competitive bridge player, Pamela Beauchamp finds an unusual way to get revenge on young rivals. Stars Penelope Keith.

Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl. Bizarre and amusing by turns, these dark comedies are justly famous for their surprise endings, and for their rogues gallery of crooks, cheats and schemers.

The stories show Dahl at the height of his powers as a writer of adult fiction, combining black comedy with sly social satire. They are stylishly plotted, vividly characterised and made unforgettable by their breezy cynicism, presenting a hilariously bleak view of human nature. 

In My Lady Love, My Dove, starring Penelope Keith, we meet Arthur and Pamela Beauchamp, a wealthy couple who like to play bridge. However, they are continually being beaten by the Snapes – a younger couple who stay with them as house guests. But Pamela has devised a cunning way of getting her own back.  

Cast:
Storyteller……..Charles Dance
Pamela…………Penelope Keith
Arthur………….Richard O’Callaghan
Henry…………..Nicholas Boulton
Sally……………Jaimi Barbakoff

Written by Roald Dahl
Dramatised by Stephen Sheridan

Director: David Blount
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Charles Dance is the urbane Storyteller in adaptations of five dark tales by Roald Dahl.

Charles Dance leads the cast as the urbane Storyteller in dramatisations of five classic tales by Roald Dahl.

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