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The Contingency Plan by Steve Waters

izzywizzzzy's review against another edition

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challenging dark emotional informative reflective fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? N/A
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.0

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4.0

BBC Radio versions of these plays are available at https://archive.org/details/TheContingencyPlan

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4.0

BBC Radio versions of these plays are available at https://archive.org/details/TheContingencyPlan

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3.0

From BBC Radio 3 - Drama on 3:
Dramatising the shadowy relationship between the state and the stage in the 1730s, 'Scribblers' focuses on the relationship between young playwright Henry Fielding and the First Minister Robert Walpole. Tracking back and forth between high politics and the emergence of a fringe theatre of real dissent, it explores the premature birth of political theatre through the mad-cap work of Fielding before it was strangled by the Licensing Act of 1737.

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu ..... Niamh Cusack
Robert Walpole ..... David Troughton
Henry Fielding ..... Carl Prekopp
James Ralph/Lord Hervey ..... Trevor White
Nicholas Paxton/Henry Giffard ..... Peter Hamilton Dyer
Molly Skerrett ..... Jane Whittenshaw
Charlotte Charke ..... Laura Elphinstone

Writen by Steve Waters
Directed and produced by Jeremy Mortimer.