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Caroline has found a new niche - a 'cruelty aunt' role on a local newspaper. This has met with mixed success.

Caroline tells her therapist Martha how she has found a new niche - a 'cruelty aunt' role on a local newspaper where she tells the disadvantaged to "stop bleating and get on with it". This has met with mixed success. She has alienated so many of her colleagues that she is no longer able to return to work. And to top it all her husband has returned home and appears to in the midst - completely selfishly - of a mental breakdown. Why does everything but everything conspire to thwart her, when all she wants is to the most successful and best known celebrity in Britain?

Shelagh Stephenson is the author of 'A Short History of Longing' and 'Guests Are Like Fish', recently heard on Radio 4. She is an Olivier Award winner for her play 'The Memory of Water' and has won Sony and Writer's Guild awards for her plays 'Darling Peidi' and 'Five Kinds of Silence'. She wrote Enid (the life of Enid Blyton) for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ4 and Shirley (the Shirley Bassey story) for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ2.

Caroline ..... Rebecca Saire
Martha ..... Frances Tomelty

Writer ..... Shelagh Stephenson
Director ..... Eoin O'Callaghan.

15 minutes

Last on

Wed 18 Nov 2015 19:45

Credits

Role Contributor
Caroline Rebecca Saire
Martha Frances Tomelty
Writer Shelagh Stephenson
Director Eoin O'Callaghan

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  • Wed 18 Nov 2015 10:41
  • Wed 18 Nov 2015 19:45

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