For the last five years of her short life, Katherine Mansfield struggled to find a cure for her pulmonary tuberculosis. Very ill, and sometimes hallucinatory, she spends her last day in Paris before resolving to stop writing while she finds a cure. A Mansfieldesque play about Katherine Mansfield.
Cast
Hattie Morahan ..... Katherine Mansfield
Clare Corbett ..... Ida
Olivia Ross ..... Waitress
Charlotte East ..... Laura
Luke Nunn ..... Bill
Carl Prekopp ..... Lawrence
Ian Dunnett Jr ..... Gardener
Sue Rivers ..... Grandmother
Eliza Pearce ..... Girl
Orla Pearce ..... Boy
Written by Katie Hims
Sound by Peter Ringrose
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole
Katie Hims is one of my favorite writers of drama. I'd say one of my favorite writers of radio drama but she's one of the best living playwrights, period. This isn't the usual kind of drama I post but it's excellent even for someone like me who is generally opposed to using real People in literary work. The description from the BBC kind of implies it's appropriate in her In case. And it's Katie Hims.
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