Dear Octopus by Dodie Smith
Adapted and Directed by Glyn Dearman
Piano played by Terence Allbright
BBC Radio 4 - Saturday Night Theatre - 04/05/1996
Length 90mins
A Comedy first performed in 1938
Plot[]
Set in 1938 four generations arrive to celebrate a golden wedding anniversary, the Family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor really wish to.
Cast[]
- Charles................Michael Denison
- Dora...................Dulcie Gray
- Fenny..................Charlotte Attenborough
- Nicholas...............Nicholas Getz
- Cythia.................Penny Downey
- Bell...................Mary Wimbush
- Hilda..................Joanna David
- Margery................Annette Badland
- Edna...................Francis Jeater
- Laurel.................Trevor McDowell
- Hugh...................Joshua Taub
- Kenneth................Michael Tudor Barnes
- Bill...................Mark Buroughs
- Scrap..................Sarah Jane Derek
- Flounsy................Bernadette Windsor
- Gertrude...............Becky Hindley
- Nanny..................Dora Brian