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Russell Tovey stars in a dramatisation of Bruce Chatwin's landmark book

Russell Tovey stars in a dramatisation of Bruce Chatwin's landmark book, which changed the face of modern travel writing. Adapted by Sebastian Baczkiewicz.

Bruce Chatwin's landmark book dramatized by Sebastian Baczkiewicz.

Russell Tovey stars as a writer on a quest to the very end of the world in search of mythical beasts. Based on Chatwin's picaresque travelogue, an adventure to find a treasured family heirloom, a lost piece of brontosaurus, turns in to something all together more fantastical yet deeply human.

In Patagonia has been described as "probably the most influential travel book written since the war", some argue exactly because it is not a travel book at all. Fifty years after he set out on his "Wonder Voyage", the writer, whose life was cut tragically short, has himself been much mythologised. His enduring literary snapshots of barren yet brimming landscape - from an enchanting pianist adopted by a Welsh-speaking community, to a prophetic Argentinian priest and tall tales of Butch Cassidy - have inspired this powerful drama which reflects on what it means to be exiled from a past which may never have existed.

WRITER/NARRATOR ..... Russell Tovey
BILL ..... David Sterne
MRS JONES/ALICE ..... Noni Lewis
ANSELMO/CASS ..... Hasan Dixon
LUISA ..... Melissa Vaughan
ANTON/GABRIEL ..... Ewan Bailey
ESTHER ..... Florencia Cordeu
MARKETA/NELL ..... Helen Schlesinger
FATHER PALACIOS ..... Julio Galán
With thanks to Susannah Clapp

Production Co-ordinator Jenny Mendez
Piano ..... Satoshi Kubo
Sound ..... Keith Graham and Jenni Burnett
Adaptor .... Sebastian Bazckiewicz
Director ..... Ciaran Bermingham

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