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Jail Mates: Episode 3: Sparring Partners

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Episode 3

Episode 3: Sparring Partners

Sparring Partners

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The love story continues between recently divorced Jenny and recently imprisoned Gerry.

A comedy of correspondence between a recently divorced woman and a recently imprisoned man. Despite wanting different things, their letters help them find some common ground.

Jenny is a 40 something adventure-seeking mum, forced to move back in with her parents in a posh suburb of Glasgow, after her marriage broke down (in no small part due to her lust for life...and the gardener!).

Gerry is a 40 something self-proclaimed scholar, and inmate of a prison on the other side of town. He's really warmed to Jenny and says that her letters are the best thing that has happened to him inside, even better than his TV soaps.

But after the disastrous phone call, is it all over before it has really started? Their letters continue, and the couple (a couple? Too soon?) find out more about each other as they share the intimate secrets about their private lives. They are both trapped in their own lives, but find freedom and solace in each other. Do such different people have enough in common to make a relationship like this work, and will a death in the family change everything..?

Written and performed by Gary Little and Julia Sutherland
Additional voices from Rosco Mcclelland
Produced and directed by Richard Melvin at Dabster Productions.

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A comedy of correspondence between a recently divorced woman and a recently imprisoned man

A comedy of correspondence between a recently divorced woman and a recently imprisoned man who find common ground in their letters.

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