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Zubin Varla

David Westhead

Lanre Malaolu

Shaun Mason

Jude Akuwudike

Elaine Claxton

Lorna Gayle

Michael Cochrane

David Acton

Sam Dale

Ian Conningham

Roslyn Hill

Leonardo Padura

Jennifer Howarth

Mary Peate

Saturday Drama: The Havana Quartet by Leonardo Padura: Havana Red

Havana Red

The Havana Quartet by Leonardo Padura

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Leonardo Padura's award-winning Cuban detective series featuring Lieutenant Mario Conde

Conde is firmly out of his comfort zone when a man is found strangled in Havana Woods wearing a red dress. Starring Zubin Varla as the world-weary but romantic detective.

by Leonardo Padura
adapted by Jennifer Howarth

Lieutenant Mario Conde's fondly held prejudices are tested by this case involving a man found strangled in Havana Woods wearing a beautiful red dress. A dramatisation of the third story in the Havana Quartet.

Cast:

Mario Conde ..... Zubin Varla
Rangel ..... David Westhead
Manolo ..... Lanre Malaolu
Fatman/ Salvador K ..... Shaun Mason
Miki ..... Jude Akuwudike
Matilde ..... Elaine Claxton
Dulcina ..... Lorna Gayle
Alberto Marques ..... Michael Cochrane
Father Mendoza ..... David Acton
Faustino ..... Sam Dale
Alquimio/ Lab Man ..... Ian Conningham
Polly ..... Roslyn Hill
 
directed by Mary Peate
 
Leonardo Padura is a novelist and journalist who was born in 1955 in Havana where he still lives. He has published a number of short-story collections and literary essays but he is best known internationally for the Havana Quartet series, all featuring Inspector Mario Conde.

In 1998, Padura won the Hammett Prize from the International Association of Crime Writers and in 2012 he was awarded the National Prize for Literature, Cuba's national literary award.




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