Dads Play Today!!

Nov 30, 2008 14:05

If anyone gets BBC Radio 4. The afternoon play today. The Hunchback of Notre Dame. My dad is in!!

Sunday 30 November 2008

The Hunchback of Notre Dame, part 1 of 2    3pm-4pm

By Victor Hugo, dramatised by Alex Bulmer

A collaboration between the BBC and Graeae, the disabled-led theatre company. This dramatisation has involved disabled writers and a cast that includes leading Deaf actor David Bower (Sign Dance Collective, Four Weddings and a Funeral) as Quasimodo and up-and-coming Romany actress and writer Candis Nergaard as Esmeralda.

1/2. Quasimodo, the hunchbacked deaf outcast, hides away in the bell tower of Notre Dame Cathedral, friendless and ashamed of his appearance. When the bewitching gypsy Esmeralda arrives in Paris, Quasimodo falls in love with her from afar.

Quasimodo ...... David Bower
Esmerelda ...... Candis Nergaard
Frollo ...... Kevin Doyle
Madame Poutine ...... Susan Twist
Madame La Fayette ...... Rita May
Phoebus ...... Joseph Kloska
Mikael Leduc ...... Roger Morlidge
George ...... Garry Robson
Guillaume ...... Terence Mann

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