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Pliny has a new job as chief overseer of the sewage works of Rome, but it is someone else who has to do the real dirty work. By Hattie Naylor.

Pliny has a new job as Chief Overseer of the sewage works of Rome - but it's Venta, his slave, who has to go under ground and check for blockages. There he finds that Rome's prisoners are doing the real dirty work, including a Stoic philosopher, the victim of a recent purge by the Emperor Domitian. By Hattie Naylor, based on real events in first century Rome.

Pliny the Younger . . . Kieran Hodgson
Venta . . . Nigel Barrett
Marcella/Hispulla . . . Joanna Scanlan
Calpurnia . . . Kimberley Nixon
Prisoner . . . Matthew Gravelle
Stoic . . . Ewan Bailey

Music composed and performed by Pete Flood (percussion) with Laura Cannell (recorder, crumhorn), Rhodri Davies (Harp) and Paul Sartin (Oboe, Cor Anglais)

A 大象传媒 /Cymru Wales production, directed by Kate McAll.

15 minutes

Credits

Role Contributor
Pliny the Younger Kieran Hodgson
Venta Nigel Barrett
Marcella Joanna Scanlan
Hispulla Joanna Scanlan
Calpurnia Kimberley Nixon
Prisoner Matthew Gravelle
Stoic Ewan Bailey
Director Kate McAll
Writer Hattie Naylor

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  • Wed 17 Jan 2018 10:41
  • Wed 17 Jan 2018 19:45

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