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Cymbeline Revisited

Ralph — Sat, 26 May 2012 10:06:00 GMT

Cymbeline Revisited

Written by Julie Hoverson

Another play? If drama be the food of life, play on, MacDuff!

Cast List

Julie Hoverson

Steve Guy

Joel Harvey

Beverly Poole

Tanja Milojevic

(Lightning Bolt Theater of the Mind)

Imogen - Chandra Wade

Cymbeline - Reynaud LeBoeuf

Posthumous - Russell Gold

Iachimo - J. Spyder Isaacson

Queen & Cornelius - Julie Hoverson

Pisanio - Glen Hallstrom

Guiderius - Joel Harvey

Jove - Bob Noble

Cloten - Michael Faigenblum

Belarius - Jack Kincaid (Edict Zero)

First Lord - Brett Coulstock

Caius - Barry J. Northern (Cast Macabre)

Music by Kevin MacLeod (Incompetech.com)

Editing and Sound: Julie Hoverson

Cover Design: Brett Coulstock

[cover art attributions]

"What kind of a place is it?

Why it's Julie's brain, can't you tell?"

Send mail to 19nocturne@live.com with questions or comments about this web site.

Website by Julie Hoverson (with help from Brett Coulstock).

Banner art by Brett Coulstock

Check out our forum on AudioDramaTalk.com

Last modified: 05/19/2010

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Theatre Organ Showcase 2010-02-12

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Theatre Organ Showcase 2010-02-12

Thank you Mike.

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Theatre Organ Showcase 2010-02-05

To all of the Theatre Organ Showcase fans, sorry for the delay.

Thanks to Mike for sharing these.

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Originally aired November 21, 1948

The Winslow Boy is an English 1946 play by Terence Rattigan based on an actual incident in the Edwardian era, which took place at the Royal Naval College, Osborne House.

The play's London debut was in 1946, and it featured Emlyn Williams, Mona Washbourne, Angela Baddeley, Kathleen Harrison, Frank Cellier, Jack Watling and Clive Morton. It was under the direction of Glen Byam Shaw.

The play's Broadway debut was in 1947, and it featured Frank Allenby as Sir Robert, Alan Webb as Arthur Winslow, Valerie White as Catherine Winslow.

The play was later made into a famous 1948 film (The Winslow Boy (1948 film)) directed by Anthony Asquith, starring Robert Donat as Sir Robert Morton KC, Cedric Hardwicke as Arthur Winslow, and Margaret Leighton as Catherine Winslow. Another film version made in 1999 (The Winslow Boy (1999 film)), this time directed by David Mamet, starring Nigel Hawthorne and Jeremy Northam as Arthur Winslow and Morton respectively, and Rebecca Pidgeon as Catherine.

Set against the strict codes of conduct and manners of the age, The Winslow Boy is based on a father's fight to clear his son's name after the boy is expelled from Osborne Naval College for stealing a postal order. To clear the boy's name was imperative for the family's honour; had they not done so, they would have been shunned by their peers and society. The boy's life would have been wrecked by the stain on his character.

The play was inspired by an actual event, which set a legal precedent; the case of George Archer-Shee, a cadet at Osborne in 1908, who was accused of stealing a postal order from a fellow cadet. His elder brother Major Martin Archer-Shee, was convinced of his innocence, and persuaded his father (also called Martin) to engage lawyers. The most respected barrister of the day, Sir Edward Carson was also persuaded of his innocence, and insisted on the case coming to court. On the fourth day of the trial, the Solicitor General accepted that Archer-Shee was innocent, and ultimately the family was paid compensation. George Archer-Shee died in the First World War and his name is inscribed on the war memorial in the village of Woodchester in Gloucestershire where his parents lived.

Ronnie Winslow, a thirteen-year-old cadet at the Royal Naval College, Osborne, is accused of the theft of a five-shilling postal order. An internal enquiry, conducted without notice to his family and without benefit of representation, finds him guilty, and his father, Arthur Winslow, is "requested to withdraw" his son from the college (the formula of the day for expulsion). Winslow believes Ronnie's claim of innocence and, with the help of his suffragette daughter Catherine and his friend and family solicitor Desmond Curry, launches a concerted effort to clear Ronnie's name. This is no small matter, as under British law Admiralty decisions are official acts of the government, which cannot be sued without its consent—traditionally expressed by the Attorney General responding to a petition of right with the formula "Let right be done".

The Winslows succeed in engaging the most highly sought after barrister in England at the time, Sir Robert Morton, known also to be a shrewd opposition Member of Parliament. Catherine had expected Sir Robert to decline the case, or at best to treat it as a political football; instead, he is coolly matter-of-fact about having been persuaded of Ronnie's innocence by his responses to questioning in the presence of his family, and is shown mustering his political forces in the House of Commons on the Winslows' behalf with little concern for the cost to his faction. Catherine remains unconvinced of Sir Robert's sincerity, perhaps not least because of his record of opposition to the cause of women's suffrage, but also due to his dispassionate manner in the midst of the Winslow family's financial sacrifices.

The government is strongly disinclined to allow the case to proceed, claiming that it is a distraction from pressing Admiralty business; but in the face of public sympathy garnered through Winslow and Catherine's efforts, and of Sir Robert's impassioned speech on the verge of defeat in the Commons, the government yields, and the case is allowed to come to court. At trial, Sir Robert (working together with Desmond Curry and his firm) is able to discredit much of the supposed evidence. The Admiralty, certainly embarrassed and presumably no longer confident of Ronnie's guilt, abruptly withdraws all charges against him, proclaiming him entirely innocent.

Although the family has won the case at law and lifted the cloud over Ronnie, it has taken its toll on the rest. His father's physical health has deteriorated under the strain, as to some degree has the Winslows' happy home. The costs of the suit and the publicity campaign have eaten up his older brother Dickie's Oxford tuition, and hence his chance at a career in the Civil Service, as well as Catherine's marriage settlement. Her fiancé John Watherstone has broken off the engagement in the face of opposition from his father (an Army General), forcing her to consider a sincere and well-intentioned offer of marriage from Desmond, whom she does not love. Sir Robert has also declined appointment as Lord Chief Justice, rather than drop the case. However, the film ends with a suggestion that romance may yet blossom between Sir Robert and Catherine, who acknowledges that she has misjudged him all along.

In the play, Rattigan quotes from actual parliamentary debates and court transcripts, but makes major changes to the characters and the timing of events, moving them closer to the start of World War I. He also introduces several fictional characters: a sister, Catherine Winslow, a suffragette and, as we learn in the final lines of the play, a potential future politician; her erstwhile fiancée, John Watherstone; and Desmond Curry, a solicitor who eventually proposes to Catherine.

Martin Archer-Shee junior was a very different character from the failed university student, Dickie Winslow, of the play. He was a Conservative Member of Parliament from 1910, and in his mid-thirties at the time of the case.

Arthur Winslow was also made less prosperous than his factual counterpart.

Whilst the play gives only indirect reference to the court case and the parliamentary debates, the 1948 film introduces scenes from these events that are not in the play.

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Set Piece

Written by Julie Hoverson

The play's the thing...

Or perhaps in this case, the "thing"

...is the play.

Cast List

Mrs. Bunn - Sharon Delong

Magda - Ellen Vickery

Franz - Cole Hornaday

Justine - Femnomena

Adam - Reynaud LeBoeuf

Mr. Stott - Rick Lewis

Willem - Danar Hoverson

Nursey - Julie Hoverson

Muller - Paul Green

(Encyclopedia of Weird Westerns)

Music by Antonio Gervasoni, from the album

"The Picture of Dorian Grey"

(available on Jamendo)

Editing and Sound: Julie Hoverson

Cover Design: Brett Coulstock

[cover art attributions]

Very vaguely inspired by Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

"What kind of a place is it?

Why it's kitchen in a castle a long time ago, can't you tell?

At least, that's what it looks like...."

Send mail to 19nocturne@live.com with questions or comments about this web site.

Website by Julie Hoverson (with help from Brett Coulstock).

Banner art by Brett Coulstock

Check out our forum on AudioDramaTalk.com

Last modified: 05/19/2010

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The play is set in St. Louis, Missouri, United States, during the Great Depression and deals with the troubled relationship between an aging mother, Amanda Wingfield, and her painfully shy daughter Laura Wingfield, as told by the son and brother, Tom Wingfield, who is supposedly relating events from memory. He states that the play is not completely realistic, because "memory takes much poetic license." In this "memory play", the time scheme moves freely between the past (the 1930s) and the present (1944-1945). (The action occurs in either 1935 or 1936, since it is "two years" after Chicago's Century of Progress World's Fair.)

Amanda is fixated on her idealized version of her Southern childhood and is the perfect example of the 'faded southern belle' about whom Williams often writes in plays such as A Streetcar Named Desire. She often recalls days when as many as seventeen gentleman callers would visit her. Her current life involves such sorrows as a complete reversal of fortune - her husband, described as a "telephone man who fell in love with long distance", abandoned the family when Tom and Laura were children. Amanda has since made a meager living working in a department store and selling magazine subscriptions. She therefore suffers a withdrawal from reality (to a smaller extent than that suffered by Tom or Laura, but more heavily emphasized in the physical sense), yet is the most extroverted family member in the play. Laura has a physical handicap: she wore a brace in high school, and now has a slight limp. She has become cripplingly shy as a result. The outside world frightens her, and she prefers the comfort of her collection of glass animals and the sounds of her father's old Victrola records. Although Tom provides financial support, working long hours in a shoe warehouse (a job he thoroughly despises), Amanda sees Tom as a "selfish dreamer" who irresponsibly retreats into movies, alcohol, and novels instead of doing more to provide for the family.

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