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Life is a Radio in the Dark

Toby Jones stars in Pulitzer nominee Will Eno's play. Davey Maskelyne is a key witness to a crime but suffers from memory loss. Can an experimental treatment restore his past?

Toby Jones stars in Pulitzer nominee Will Eno's play. Davey Maskelyne is a key witness to a crime but suffers from memory loss. Can an experimental treatment restore his past?

Davey Maskelyne ..... Toby Jones
Dr. Baines ..... Colin Stinton
Sgt. Castor ..... Fenella Woolgar
Maud ..... Cecilia Appiah
Gallery Director ..... Kenneth Collard
Jennifer ..... Clare Corbett
Jesse ..... Luke Nunn
Courtney ..... Charlotte East
Audio Guide ..... Roger Ringrose
Park Woman ..... Emma Handy
Jim ..... Carl Prekopp
Granddaughter ..... Alejandra Howard

Producer Sally Avens

When Davey Maskelyne embarks upon sonic therapy to restore his memory so he can help solve a crime the treatment leads to a reckoning with a past he never believed he could recover. The play wittily tangles with questions of loss and memory. What is a person without a past? Might we be better living in the moment? And how does sound give us a more profound experience of that past?

A binaural soundtrack gives the audience a chance to experience the sound world for themselves.

Will Eno is one of America's most exciting playwrights. Eno first burst on to the scene in Britain with his play Thom Pain (based on nothing) which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in Drama.

In 2014 his play The Realistic Joneses appeared on Broadway where it received a Drama Desk Special Award and was named Best Play on Broadway by USA Today and Best American Play of 2014 by The Guardian. His play The Open House was presented Off-Broadway at the Signature Theatre in 2014 and won the Obie Award for Playwriting as well as other awards, and was on both TIME Magazine and Time Out New York's Top Ten Plays of 2014.

Will wrote this play specifically for Toby Jones :

Toby Jones is one of our country's best character actors. He made his breakthrough as Truman Capote in the film 'Infamous' and has gone on to appear in numerous other films including Frost/Nixon, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and The Hunger Games.

He was nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Actor in a Television film for his roles as Alfred Hitchcock in The Girl and he won a BAFTA for his role in The Detectorists.

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1 hour, 29 minutes

Last on

Sun 25 Jun 2023 19:30

Broadcasts

  • Sun 22 Nov 2020 19:30
  • Sun 25 Jun 2023 19:30