BBC WS - T S Eliot's 'The Cocktail Party' sp7
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BBC WS - T S Eliot's 'The Cocktail Party' Adapted by John Foley Technical presentation by Simon Moorcraft Production by Alison Rees Directed by Marion Nancarrow Broadcast December 14, 2003 Coded from tape at 128/44.1 Thanks to Usenet for this file For me, the best of Eliot's plays. More natural - less stylised - than the others. This production flows along quite nicely. Superficially a comedy of manners, a party host's spouse has gone missing, guests are arriving and appearances have to be maintained. The uninvited guest, a psychiatrist, arrives, sets things to rights, and the host's mistress moves on. The deeper theme is that, having made commitments, we should make the best of things. Which seems to me to be Eliot's conscience playing up about his troubled first marriage. Here matters are resolved. In life his wife died in the lunatic asylum to which he'd had her committed. Cast Jeremy Child Ian McDermott Diane Quick Sheila Gish Malcolm Sinclair Emily Brune Benedict Cumberbatch Rachel Atkins Philip Vox