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| − | '''''Family Voices''''' is a 1980 radio play for three voices - it exposes the story of a mother, son, and dead husband and father through a series of letters that the mother and son have written to one another and that each speaks aloud. The play is also performed live on stage as a "platform performance" with three actors speaking the three voices. | + | '''''Family Voices''''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Voices] is a 1980 radio play for three voices - it exposes the story of a mother, son, and dead husband and father through a series of letters that the mother and son have written to one another and that each speaks aloud. The play is also performed live on stage as a "platform performance" with three actors speaking the three voices. |
| + | '''''Victoria Station''''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Station_%28play%29] is a 1982 short play for two actors and it consists of a radio dialogue between a minicab controller (or dispatcher) and a driver (#274) who is stopped by the side of "a dark park" in London, supposedly waiting further instructions. | ||
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Revision as of 07:24, 25 August 2015
Other Places is a trilogy of short plays by English playwright Harold Pinter (1930-2008) [1]: Family Voices (1980), Victoria Station (1982), and A Kind of Alaska (1982) - they are part of the "Memory Plays" [2], a series of short plays Pinter wrote between 1968 and 1982.
First produced at The National Theatre, Cottesloe, October 1982. [3]
Published in Other places : three plays, by Harold Pinter. Methuen, 1982.
Contents
The original text
Family Voices [4] is a 1980 radio play for three voices - it exposes the story of a mother, son, and dead husband and father through a series of letters that the mother and son have written to one another and that each speaks aloud. The play is also performed live on stage as a "platform performance" with three actors speaking the three voices.
Victoria Station [5] is a 1982 short play for two actors and it consists of a radio dialogue between a minicab controller (or dispatcher) and a driver (#274) who is stopped by the side of "a dark park" in London, supposedly waiting further instructions.
and A Kind of Alaska (1982).
Translations and adaptations
Performance history in South Africa
Presented by PACT Drama directed by Bobby Heaney, 1984/85.
Sources
PACT pamphlet Let Us Build a Heritage. 1984/85.
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