Just Between Ourselves (Jenom mezi námi, 1983)

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Červen 5, 2011

Alan Ayckbourn. Hořkosladká vztahová komedie. Rozhlasová úprava Richard Wigmore.

Osoby a obsazení: Dennis (Peter Vaughan), Vera (Jennifer Piercy), Neil (Nigel Anthony), Pam (Frances Jeater) a Margorie (Hilda Kriseman)

Natočeno 1983. Premiéra 12. 2. 1984 (World Service, Radio 4) v cyklu Afternoon Theatre. Repríza 19. 6. 2004 (BBC Radio 7, 12:30 – 14:00 h.; s úvodem vedoucího dramaturga Gordona House), 5. 4. 2009 (BBC Radio 7, 13:00 h), 6. 4. 2009 (BBC Radio 7, 1:00 h), 5. 6. 2010 (BBC Radio 7, 13:00 h.), 6. 6. 2010 (BBC Radio 7, 10:00 h), 19. 3. 2011 (BBC Radio 7, 13:00 h), 20. 3. 2011 (BBC Radio 7, 1:00 h), 15. 12. 2012 (BBC Radio 4 Extra, 6:00 h + 16:00 h), 16. 12. 2012 (BBC Radio 4 Extra, 4:00 h), 23. 5. 2015 (BBC Radio 4 Extra, 6:00 + 16:00 h.), 24. 5. 2015 (BBC Radio 4 Extra, 4:00 h.).

Lit.: anonym: Just Between Ourselves. In web Suttonelms, b. d. (soupis rozhlasových prací A. Ayckbourna). – Cit.: A bittersweet comedy about love, relationships and marriage. The story lifts the covers off suburbia to reveal the seething tensions beneath. Dennis spends his spare time pottering in the garage, oblivious to the fact that he has absolutely no mechanical or DIY skills. He is equally unaware that his wife, Vera, is being driven to distraction by his possessive mother.

Gordon House………………..“I’ve lost count of the number of Alan Ayckbourn’s plays I’ve produced on radio, but one of the first I ever worked on was „Just Between Ourselves“, a play where each scene takes place on the birthday of one of its five central characters. This is a play in which a man literally drives his wife mad. The scene in which this deeply depressed woman begs for help and he, quite incapable of understanding what she is talking about, asks her to draw up a list of household jobs to be done, is one of the bleakest scenes in the history of English Theatre. Just Between Ourselves is a great play, but shorn of the comforting laughter a theatre audience produces, it beggars belief to call it a comedy, particularly on radio.“