Mathry Beacon by Giles Cooper
Produced by Donald McWhinnie
Music Arranged and played by Freddie Clayton
First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme, 18/06/1956.
A repeat broadcast was made in 1984.
Mathry Beacon is the first of the plays that made Giles Cooper's reputation.
Plot[]
The play opens during the Second World War, a group of service men and women are sent to operate
and guard a secret installation at Mathry Beacon in a remote and isolated part of Wales. During
this enforced isolation they begin to form a community so potentially perfect that their leaders
keep them in ignorance that the war is over. Cooper shows the forces that keep society together
and those that break it apart.................
The cast:[]
- Gann.............................Maurice Denham
- Blick.............................David Markham
- Olim..............................Earl Cameron
- Bleening........................Eleanor Summerfield
- Gunner Evans................Dudley Jones
- Bombardier Ling.............Janette Richer
other parts played by:
- Sheila Moloney
- Elaine Macnamara
- Shelagh Kennedy