Saturday, March 27, 2021

Saturday Night Radio Drama - Judith Thompson - The Quickening - from The Vanishing Point

 

The Quickening 

Laura and Peter are the perfect couple; everyone tells them so. But after an evening of rising tensions among their upwardly mobile crowd, their relationship suddenly takes an irreversible turn. The results are both absurd and shocking in this powerful first venture into radio by Judith Thompson, the author of the stage plays The Crackwalker and White Biting Dog

 

Just when you figure your relationships are messed up. Makes you wonder how anyone sustains one, or it's a commentary on people too concerned about how they feel and make themselves miserable.  I think it's the legacy of psychology.  

Not enough time to type out the credits, they give them at the end.  Judith Thompson is one of Canada's most well respected playwrights.

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