Anansi Boys (2007)

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Prosinec 4, 2007

Neil Gaiman. Dramatizace Mike Walker. Režie Anne Edyvean.

Osoby a obsazení: Spider a tlustý Charlie (Lenny Henry), Graham Coats a Tiger (Matt Lucas), Anansi (Rudolph Walker), Mrs Noah a Ptačí žena (Dona Croll), Mrs Higgler (Tameka Empson), Rosie (Petra Letang), Daisy (Jocelyn Jee Esien) a Cabbies a různé hlasy (Ben Crowe)

Nastudovalo BBC World Service v roce 2007. Premiéra 17. 11. 2007.

Pozn.: Anansi Boys is the story of Charles „Fat Charlie“ Nancy, a timid Londoner devoid of ambition, whose unenthusiastic wedding preparations are disrupted when he learns of his father’s death in Florida. The flamboyant Mr. Nancy, in whose shadow Fat Charlie has always lived, died in a typically embarrassing manner by suffering a fatal heart attack while flirting with women in a karaoke bar.

Fat Charlie is forced to take time off from the accounting agency where he works and travel to Florida for the funeral. There, he learns that the late Mr. Nancy was actually an incarnation of the West African spider god, Anansi, hence his name.

After the funeral, while discussing the disposal of Anansi’s estate, Mrs. Callyanne Higgler (a very old family friend) reveals to Fat Charlie that the reason his father had led a lazy existence was because he was a god and so could easily acquire whatever money he needed to enjoy himself. The reason Charlie had not apparently inherited any divine powers was because they had been passed down to his hitherto unknown brother, of whom she mentions that he can be contacted by simply asking a spider to invite him. Charlie is skeptical, and on his return to England, largely forgets what Mrs. Higgler had told him, until one night when he drunkenly whispers to a spider that it would be nice if his brother stopped by for a visit. (anotace, viz wikipedia)