The Purple Land (Nachová země, 2011)

Přidal: Přemek |

Únor 17, 2012

William Henry Hudson. Hudba Ross Hughes a Esben Tjalve, hrají autoři. Trubka Daniel Weitz. Střih Eileen Horne. Režie Clive Brill.

Osoby a obsazení: Richard (David Tennant), Paquita (Denise Gough), Marcos / majordomus (Danny Webb), Toribia / babička (Carol Macready), Isidora (Lizzie McInnerney), Herdsman / Allday (Nigel Cooke), Paquitin otec /Winchcombe (Richard Durden), Monica / Donna Mercedes (Jacey Salles), Cloud / Blanco Major (Nicholas Murchie), Epifanio / Chillingwoth (Chuk Iwuji), Juez / barman / Blass (Trevor Martin), Cleta / matka (Jane Slavin), Herdsmanova dcera / Margerita (Beth Cooke), Anita (Grace Horbury), Herdsmanův chlapec (Danny Concha).

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2011. Premiéra 16. 7. 2011 (BBC Radio 4, 14:15 h.). Ke stažení zde

Pozn.: Published in 1885, The Purple Land was the first novel of William Henry Hudson, author of Green Mansions. The Anglo-Argentine naturalist distinguished himself both as one of the finest craftsmen of prose in English literature and as a thinker on ecological matters far ahead of his time.

In Davies‘ hands this ‚road novel‘ becomes a fast paced romp in the tradition of Tom Jones, with a dash of Don Quixote for good measure. It is an exuberant, wryly comic account of a young Englishman’s imprudent adventures, set against a background of political strife in nineteenth-century South America. Eloping with an Argentine girl, young Richard Lamb makes an implacable enemy of his teenage bride’s father. Leaving her behind, he goes ignorantly forth into the interior of the country to seek his fortune.

Whilst doing so he learns to hunt, ride, herd, love – even kill. On his way to becoming a man. Hemingway alluded to this book in his masterpiece „The Sun Also Rises“, claiming that „The Purple Land“ is ‚dangerous reading if read too late in life’. Hopefully – it doesn’t make for dangerous listening! A Pacificus production for BBC Radio 4.