DIRECTED
by Sean Wilkinson
Performed in the Cowan Studio Wednesday 19th - Saturday 22rd October 2003
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Billy
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ron ATKINSON | |
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Mary
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nina WILSON | |
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Susan
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melissa QUINN | |
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Janet
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alison LAWRENCE | |
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Policeman
Detective Psychiatrist Lawyer |
sean MUKHERJEE | |
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Police
Inspector
Psychiatrist Lawyer |
allison FINGERHUT | |
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Five
Kinds of Silence (which won the 1996 Writers' Guild Award for Best
Original Radio Play) and the 1997 Sony Award for Best Original Drama)
is the story of a family in which control has become the driving force,
where everything has its place, and where there are only rules, duties
and punishments.
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Five
Kinds of Silence was first performed as a stage play by 'Out of
the Blue Productions' on 31st May 2000 at the Lyric Hammersmith, London.
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Ian
Brown was the Director, whilst Tim Pigott-Smith and Linda Bassett played
the roles of Billy and Mary respectively. 'An acute and funny writer,
Stephenson carves out a welcome territory that is distinctive, contemporary
and theatrical.ÊIndependent
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| About the Writer - Shelagh Stephenson Shelagh has written several radio plays including The Anatomical Venus and Five Kinds of Silence. Her first stage play, The Memory of Water, opened at the Hampstead theatre and subsequently transferred to the West End where it won the Olivier Award for Best Comedy in February 2000 | |
