Lucy Caldwell has written a trilogy of plays looking at different ways families say ‘Goodbye’.
At Sea
Set in a near future where we find ourselves in a refugee camp in Berwick Upon Tweed filled with families fleeing from a Cholera torn London. We follow three generations of a family as they struggle to hold themselves together in such extreme circumstances. The Father has already escaped to Norway under the cover of night to try to set up a new home for them there, but the struggle gets ever greater and with a traumatised son, a devastated mother and a determined daughter and grandmother, they go on a journey that leaves them no choice but to say goodbye.
Cast:
Lily ... Clara Murphy
Oliver ... Alfie Hurley
Elaine ... Ger Ryan
Susan ... Emma Amos
Chris ... George Anton
Cameraman/Smuggler 1/Fisherman 1 ... Tom Glenister
Smuggler 2/Fisherman 2 ... Finlay Paul
News Anchor/ Woman ... Julia Grogan
Directed by Celia de Wolff
A BBC NI Radio Drama Production
The Flowers Are Perfect in the Garden
A man spends his final days in a hospice surrounded by his wife and once estranged children, who have travelled far and wide to be by his bedside at this time.
It is full of laughter and tears as memories often are and it is a chance for them to re-connect and re-charge the loving bond that had been lost for a time. They are able to come together as a family and as a result in the death of their father there is a birth of a family once more.
Cast:
Pat ... Dermot Crowley
Mary ... Dearbhla Molloy
Oisín ... Patrick O'Kane
Emma ... Charlene McKenna
Emma (child) ... Clara Murphy
Oisín (child) ... Alex Warburton
Letitia ... Deborah Bahi
Corazón ... Maria Cristina Crampton
Other parts were played by Alice Hoskyns and Tom Glenister
Director ... Celia de Wolff
BBC NI Radio Drama Production
Martians
Laura is a young midwife who is preparing to leave her family and the world she knows to begin life on another planet.
One of the twelve chosen few to be picked to take their skills to Mars to begin new life, just as her grandmother did when she moved from Jamaica to London and her father’s ancestors leaving a famine-riddled Ireland for America, Laura has to choose what to take and what to leave behind. She also has to say goodbye to her family for good, she doesn’t want any fuss, just another day, she is going to make a difference, a star in the sky….
Cast:
Laura ..... Tia Bannon
Michael ..... Toheeb Jimoh
Margo ..... Angel Coulby
Lorraine ..... Michelle Greenidge
Eoin ..... Lloyd Hutchinson
Joan ..... Joy Richardson
Angharad & Young Woman 1 ..... Tallulah Bond
Ijaaz, Male Voice ..... Ronny Jhutti
Older Woman, Radio Presenter & Automated Voice ..... Beth Goddard
Produced & Directed by Celia De Wolff
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Thank you, William.