Happily, this trip out was much shorter and I am starting to feel much more human again - for at least a few days, I hope.
May it last longer than you expect!
No, no, Year of the Sex Olympics was made in 1968, so it's the other way around. Also, I haven't seen anything else of his so I may have been unfair to him.
Sorry, for some reason I thought it was late Nigel Kneale! I have seen the 1954 Nineteen Eighty-Four because it starred Peter Cushing, the 1959 BBC Quatermass and the Pit rather than its much later film version because it kept turning up in discussions of indispensable weird fiction, The Abominable Snowman (1957) which he adapted from his own lost teleplay also starring Peter Cushing, and a couple of films I always forget he co-wrote, of which H.M.S. Defiant (1962) was memorable in its own right. And just earlier this year the pilot of Kinvig (1981), not recommended except for Colin Jeavons. I have no ability at this time to collate his handling of female characters except Jill would be miles ahead of any other I can recall.
The play winds up with the producers setting a murderer loose on the island to liven things up, who is very much in line with a particularly tiresome 60s/70s trope of the era of a sex serial killer or inevitable devolved brute where the cavemen always beat the astronauts & funnily enough the women almost never devolve into violence themselves - but obv the point here is the lengths they will go to for the viewers, which is indeed horribly prescient.
I know your resources need to be carefully parceled, but I would love to hear you sometime read this production against Vengeance on Varos.
That does seem quite appropriate really. 7000 years ago, maybe?
It is at least the sort of thing they would try and make available if it did! EVen aside from more Nigel Kneale hauntings, obviously I need more of James Maxwell in the absolutely inevitable terrible fake hair. But maybe with a cool 18th C coat!
One can but hope!
Seriously, I would also love to see it; I read the script years ago. Did you listen to the 2018 BBC Radio 4 version? I missed it completely at the time and then it never came back around while I still had access to BBC Sounds.
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May it last longer than you expect!
No, no, Year of the Sex Olympics was made in 1968, so it's the other way around. Also, I haven't seen anything else of his so I may have been unfair to him.
Sorry, for some reason I thought it was late Nigel Kneale! I have seen the 1954 Nineteen Eighty-Four because it starred Peter Cushing, the 1959 BBC Quatermass and the Pit rather than its much later film version because it kept turning up in discussions of indispensable weird fiction, The Abominable Snowman (1957) which he adapted from his own lost teleplay also starring Peter Cushing, and a couple of films I always forget he co-wrote, of which H.M.S. Defiant (1962) was memorable in its own right. And just earlier this year the pilot of Kinvig (1981), not recommended except for Colin Jeavons. I have no ability at this time to collate his handling of female characters except Jill would be miles ahead of any other I can recall.
The play winds up with the producers setting a murderer loose on the island to liven things up, who is very much in line with a particularly tiresome 60s/70s trope of the era of a sex serial killer or inevitable devolved brute where the cavemen always beat the astronauts & funnily enough the women almost never devolve into violence themselves - but obv the point here is the lengths they will go to for the viewers, which is indeed horribly prescient.
I know your resources need to be carefully parceled, but I would love to hear you sometime read this production against Vengeance on Varos.
That does seem quite appropriate really. 7000 years ago, maybe?
It is at least the sort of thing they would try and make available if it did! EVen aside from more Nigel Kneale hauntings, obviously I need more of James Maxwell in the absolutely inevitable terrible fake hair. But maybe with a cool 18th C coat!
One can but hope!
Seriously, I would also love to see it; I read the script years ago. Did you listen to the 2018 BBC Radio 4 version? I missed it completely at the time and then it never came back around while I still had access to BBC Sounds.