Rock 'n' Roll by Tom Stoppard
Directed by Alison Hindell
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio3/dramaon3/pip/r3a1d/
first broadcast - BBC Radio 3, Drama on 3, Sunday 8 July 2007
Stoppard's play about loyalty, compromise, love and a time when music helped to change the world. Its radio debut has been specially adapted by Stoppard with a new final scene.
It's 1968, and Jan, a Cambridge student, returns home to Prague to protect rock 'n' roll from the Soviet tanks crushing the Prague Spring. Max, Jan's Marxist don in Cambridge, watches his ideology collapse over the decades, until the Velvet Revolution of 1990, when the Rolling Stones play an historic concert in Prague, and student and master finally meet once more. The politics and music have changed: have the people?
The writer in the play, Ferdinand, is a tribute to Vaclav Havel. (In three of Havel's plays the central character, who represents Havel himself, is Ferdinand Vanek.)
The original stage production, directed by Trevor Nunn, premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, running from 3 June 2006 until 15 July 2006. It then transferred to the Duke of York's Theatre. It featured Rufus Sewell as Jan and Sinead Cusack as Esme. Vaclav Havel was in attendance at the opening, as was Mick Jagger.
Bill Paterson as Max
Daniel Evans as Jan
Penny Downie as Eleanor
Amanda Root as Esmé
Bertie Carvel as Ferdinand
Jaimi Barbakoff as Young Esmé
Jasmine Hyde as Alice
Ron Cook as Nigel
Britta Gartner as Lenka
Joseph Kloska as Stephan
John Dougall as Milan
Liza Sadovy as Candida
Jasmine Callan as Gillian
Other parts are played by members of the cast
Duration - 2 hours 23 minutes
130 MB (133,884 KB / 137,097,984 bytes)
MPEG-1 Layer 3
48000Hz 128 kb/s tot, Stereo
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Thank you Sir!
Cool! Thanks to you, Robert!