The Unfortunates (Nešťastníci, 2011)

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Únor 17, 2012

B.S. Johnson. Rozhlasová adaptace Graham White. Režie Mary Peate.

Osoby a obsazení: Bryan (Martin Freeman), Tony (Patrick Kennedy), Wendy (Claire Rushbrook), June (Jacqueline Defferary), Tonyho otec (Sean Baker), záchranář /Tonyho matka (Christine Kavanagh), hlasatel /reportér (Tony Bell), bytná / úřednice (Sally Orrock), majitel penzionu / reportér (Jude Akuwudike), úředník / zpravodajský hlas (Lloyd Thomas), obchodník / úředník (Sam Dale), okolojdoucí dítě (Joseph Dudgeon), Tonyho syn (Greta Dudgeon).

Nastudovalo BBC v roce 2011. Premiéra 2. 10. 2011 (BBC 3, 20:30 h.).

Pozn.: Cena za adaptaci (Innovation Award). – „But I know this city…Tony. This town. His town. Their town.“Adaptation of B. S. Johnson’s 1969 novel in which a sports journalist travels to a strange city to cover a football match, only to discover it was the city where he first met his friend Tony who has died young of cancer. We follow the journalist from his arrival at the train station, through lunch, to the match and on the journey home, as different memories of his friend are triggered.

Originally published in 27 unbound pamphlets in a box, The Unfortunates was intended to be read in a random order. The lack of a fixed order is suggestive of the way memories occur, and the book becomes a meditation not just on friendship and loss, but also on the nature of memory and writing as our hero struggles to recall everything in order to ‚get it all down‘ as he promised his dying friend.

B. S. Johnson is not a household name, but his novels are beloved by a growing number of people who have discovered him and he has something of a cult status. Renewed interest in B.S. Johnson came partly from the publication of Jonathan Coe’s celebrated biography of Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant.