Saturday 1st September 2007, 12:00 - 7:00 pm
Amblecote Room, Stourbridge Town Hall,
Stourbridge, West Midlands, UK
Free Admission
MAIN ROOM
- 12:00 Softly Softly Task Force - "Sleeping Dogs". Written by Alan Plater, this hard-hitting early episode from 1966 deals with racism.
- 13:00 The Career of Alan Plater - A round-up of clips from the work of the celebrated writer, including his early BBC work, Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt, Trinity Tales, Get Lost and Lewis.
- 13:25 Trinity Tales - with script and lyrics by Alan Plater and starring Bill Maynard and Francis Matthews, this is an internal BBC compilation of highlights, made for promotional reasons in 1975.
- 13:50 Break
- 14:00 Live on Stage - Alan Plater - Kaleidoscope welcomes the prolific and highly acclaimed writer to discuss his long career, with clips including Cribb, The Beiderbecke Affair, Campion, Land of Green Ginger and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- 15:30 Afternoon Tea
- 16:00 Alan Plater's Personal Choice - Alan Plater has written many plays, which one will he choose to show us this afternoon?
- 17:30 The Loner - "Dawson's Connection". Comedy starring Les Dawson, Peter Ellis, Reginald Marsh and Roy Kinnear.
- 18:00 Curriculee Curricula - this 1978 BBC2 musical play was written by Alan Plater with legendary Dave Greenslade music and originally broadcast as a simulcast with Radio 4. In a unique first for Kaleidoscope, we present the play in stereo for the first time ever.
- 19:00 Closedown
SECOND VIEWING AREA
- 12:00 Middlemen - "Rich is Best" - written by Alan Plater and starring Frank Windsor, Francis Matthews and Gwen Taylor.
- 12:30 Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt - "Three Fifths of the World Loves a Lover". The fondly remembered series from the pen of Alan Plater, starring Bill Maynard.
- 13:00 Willow Cabins - Dorothy Tutin, Michael Bryant and Clive Swift star in this Alan Plater play focusing on relationships.
- 14:00 The Return of Sherlock Holmes - "The Man With The Twisted Lip" - Jeremy Brett's definitive Holmes leads the cast in Alan Plater's dramatisation of Conan Doyle's story.
- 15:00 Shades of Darkness - "Bewitched". Alan Plater adapts Edith Wharton's eerie tale with a superb cast including Eileen Atkins, Alfred Burke, Ray Smith, Gareth Thomas and Alfred Lynch.
- 16:00 Villains - "Three to a Cell". Power struggles in a prison are the theme of this crime play written by Alan Plater.
- 17:00 A Question of Happiness - "Fred" - David Langton stars in one of Alan Plater's earliest plays, and his first for ITV. The study of a lonely man in a crowded bar.
- 18:00 The Party of the First Part - Alan Plater's play from 1978 focuses on a coming of age party to remember; the cast includes Anne Stallybrass, Michael Gambon and Jan Francis.
- 19:00 Closedown
All material at Kaleidoscope events is screened with the permission of the copyright holders
This Kaleidoscope Event was in support of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution once again
and raised £189.60, bringing Kaleidoscope's overall total for this worthy cause since 1994 to £8,479.38
Sue Coombes, Honorary Secretary of RNLI Stourbridge Branch, said:
"..Thank you all for another brilliant day on Saturday - what a lovely couple Alan Plater and Shirley were - and how versatile is he? His writing and dramatisations have been so varied - it was fantastic to see some of his work and listen to the man himself. I thought you had a really good audience - those who didn't make it missed a treat. Your supporters were also very generous on Saturday with a total of £189.60 in the buckets bringing the total to £8,479.38. Well done and thank you."
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