Electric Decade: Antic Hay

Antic Hay

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Classic titles that influenced and characterised the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

During 2020, we bring you a range of classic titles that influenced and characterised the Jazz Age of the 1920s.

During 2020, we bring you a range of classic titles that influenced and characterised the Jazz Age of the 1920s, from the beginnings of Modernism, through the parties and dancing as the shadow of the war was thrown off, to increasing uncertainty as the decade drew to a close.

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One of the classic titles that characterised the Jazz Age of the 1920s

Mike Harris's hilarious adaptation of Aldous Huxley's comic novel set in the glittering hedonism of the 1920s.

Antic Hay by Aldous Huxley. Dramatised by Mike Harris
When inspiration leads Theo Gumbril to design pneumatic trousers to ease the discomfort of a sedentary life, he decides to give up teaching and seek his fortune in London. But his dreams disappear as he gets caught up in the world of his self absorbed friends. A wicked satire on the glittering hedonism of the 1920s. 

Theo ..... James Cooney
Myra ..... Emily Pithon
Coleman ..... Jonathan Keeble
Lypiatt ..... Simeon Truby
Shearwater ..... Graeme Hawley
Emily ..... Verity Henry

Producer/Director Gary Brown
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