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The key to a bold and original approach to the mission, arrest,
trial and death of Jesus is the title; Son of Man. He is portrayed
as a man agonized by the feeling of divinity within him, and with
all a man's capacity for suffering and pain. "Father, let me be
just a man," he cries; and, to his disciples. "He (Son of Man)
cannot be other than a man, or else God has cheated-- and so my
Father in Heaven will abandon me to myself." The play also strongly
reflects the historical and political situation in which the events
occur-- and examines in a new light the character and motives of
Judas Iscariot.3 women, 27 men
This deceptively simple tale relates the activities of seven
English children played by adults on a summer afternoon during
World War II. In a woods, a field and a barn, they play, fight,
fantasize and swagger. Their aggressions, fears, hostilities and
rivalries are a microcosm of adult interaction. Easy going Willie
tags along as burly Peter bullies Raymond and is challenged by fair
minded Paul. Plain Audrey is overshadowed by Angela's prettiness
and wreaks her anger on the boys. All of them gang up on the
terrified "Donald Duck" who, abused by his mother and ridiculed by
his peers, plays a dangerous game of pyromania with tragic results.
This clever, disturbing, and controversial play revolves around Mr.
and Mrs. Bates, a dull, middle aged couple whose only daughter,
Pattie, has been reduced to a vegetable following a car accident.
Suddenly, a polite, helpful and clean cut but satanic young man
walks into their lives with startling results.2 women, 2 men
Dennis Potter here introduces three of his acclaimed works, Blue
Remembered Hills (1979), Joe's Ark (1974) and Cream in My Coffee
(1980), and discusses the artistic potential and the limitations of
a constantly evolving medium. Blue Remembered Hills: 'The novelty
is that the leading characters, a group of seven-year-old children,
are played by adult actors. It is a brilliant device, employed not
as a gimmick but to suggest that youthful behaviour is carried over
into the grown-up world . . . Blue Remembered Hills won the BAFTA
Award for Best Play in 1979 and is a landmark in television drama.'
The Times
This is the unabridged original text of Dennis Potter's acclaimed
six-part television serial. The narrative counterpoints life in a
hospital ward of a writer crippled by a horrific skin disease with
the plot of his atmospheric thriller to the point where fantasy and
reality seem to exchange places. The result is the most painful and
disturbing screen drama of the 1980s.
British television's pre-eminent playwright - latterly a novelist
and film-maker - talks with passionate erudition, disarming candour
and acerbic wit about the early influences that shaped him and led
to his pioneering use of non-naturalism, to his self-reflexive
subversion of film and TV cliches, his controversial approach to
sex, politics, religion and the double-edged puritanism of the
English condition. The book presents a remarkable portrait of a man
for whom writing is, first and foremost, a vocation.
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