COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS by Angela Carter 1979
An reconstruction of the life and paintings of Richard Dadd (1817-1886) written by Angela Carter. Broadcast by BBC R3 28-Mar-1979.
COME UNTO THESE YELLOW SANDS tells the story of the painter Richard Dadd, who murdered his father and was confined to Broadmoor, where he created the Fairy paintings for which he is now famous. Carter uses the story, and animates the fairy figures themselves, in order to explore how "the distorted style of the paintings of Dadd's madness, together with his archetypical crime of parricide, seems to be expressions of the dislocation of the real relations of humankind to itself, during Britain's great period of high capitalism and imperialist triumph."
CAST
Richard Dadd...........Philip Scully
Titania........June Tobin
Oberon........John Westbrook
Puck........Andrew Branch
Sir Thomas Phillips.....William Eedle
Crazy Jane........Sheila Grant
The Shopkeeper......Harold Kasket
Other parts played by:.......Eric Allan, Peter Baldwin, Margot Boyd, Noel Howlett
Violin played by George French
produced by Glyn Dearman.
AN EVENING WITH ANGELA CARTER.
On 2018, BBC produced An evening with Angela Carter, presenting new versions of Carter's Vampirella and Come Unto these Yellow Sands mixed with Fiona Shaw readings of Carter's commentaries.
CAST BBC 2018 version
CARTER ... Fiona Shaw
RICHARD DADD ... James Anthony Rose
SIR THOMAS PHILLIPS ... Pip Torrens
FRITH ... Keith Hill
OBERON ... Robert Pugh
TITANIA ... Monica Dolan
PUCK/ROBERT DADD ... Tom Forrister
SHOPKEEPER/FAIRY FELLER ... Noof McEwan
CRAZY JANE ... Jasmine Jones
LANDLADY ... Tilly Vosburgh
DOCTOR/HOWARD ... Nicholas Murchie
Violinist - Madeleine Brooks
Director - Robin Brooks
Producer - Fiona McAlpine
Sound Design - Wilfredo Acosta