Drama 2011/2012

[eighthobstruction]

Yeah I know, but I can dream can't I....

[french frank]

Transferring a play from the stage to radio would effectively require starting afresh

Which I think is what they do for the R3 transfers: same director, same actors, as far as possible, but adpated [adpated? ] for radio.

[Al R Gando]

Yes, it's that adpating which is the maguffin - so few manage to adpate successfully these days. I blame the government, of course.

Anyhow, there's no other drama in Britain during 2012 than Shakespeare. It's official, a committee of discus-casters and stick-throwers decided it. And who would know better than they? Yes, that Douglas Shakespeare, he's the one! We're to get his Compleat Workes. For The Bard (as we are obliged to call him) is only ever performed in his Compleat Workes.

First Ambassador
The sight is dismal;
And our affairs from England come too late:
The ears are senseless that should give us hearing,
To tell him his commandment is fulfill'd,
That Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead:
Where should we have
A Messenger
My Lord, I bring astounding news!
With which we interrupt this solemn scene
To bring glad tidings of great report
Direct from the Women's 800m Backstroke
In which ye ladye from the New Englande colonies
Was trounced by another ladye from Porto Ricco!
And was vouchsafed with a medallion of fair gold
From the very hand of Good Prince Hal!
And with this said, I hand ye back, groundlings
To Denmark, where ye play hath now ended.

[DracoM]

Judging by reviews only, I rather hope we are NOT going to get a radio adaptation of the current 'Tempest' with Ralph Fiennes.