RADIO valentine

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=80 BGCOLOR="#330066" TEXT="#F7F7FF" bgproperties="fixed" background="222467f1dkblkv.gif"> <div> <A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE=" michele celeste/"><U><B>home</B></U></A><B> /</B><B> michele celeste/</B><B> </B><A HREF="id85.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="ENGLISH RADIO PLAYS"><U><B>RADIO PLAYS Originals & Adaptations in English</B></U></A><B>/</B></div> <div> <B>    A valentine for execution</B></div> <bR> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=25% BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="134" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BF0000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 82 WIDTH="122"><div> <B>RADIO PLAYS </B></div> <div> <B>Originals & Adaptations in English</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>ORIGINALS</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id290.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RADIO obeah"><U><B>RADIO obeah</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id291.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RADIO anacaona"><U><B>RADIO anacaona</B></U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id292.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RADIO my goat "><U><B>RADIO my goat </B></U></A></div> <div> <B>RADIO valentine</B></div> </td> <td valign="top" height=400 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000"> <bR> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="547" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#BF0000" BORDERCOLORDARK="#BF0000" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 77 WIDTH="535"><div> <B>A VALENTINE FOR EXECUTION</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Director Peter Kavanagh</B></div> <div> <B>BBC Radio 4, Monday Play, 1998</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 186 WIDTH="535"><div> <B>Complications ensue when an illiterate peasant and her imprisoned lover have to ask other people to transcribe their letters. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>Pedrillo..................................Michael Maloney</B></div> <div> <B>Jose-Manuela...............................Adjoa Andoh</B></div> <div> <B>Saul............................................ Pip Donaghy</B></div> <div> <B>Padre Miguel............................... Oliver Cotton</B></div> <bR> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 475 WIDTH="535"><div> <B>The Express on Sunday, 8 February, 1998</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>RADIO REVIEW by Ben Garner</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>SHEETS IN THE FRIGDE?  It's a good play</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>On Monday night Michele Celeste's play A VALENTINE FOR EXECUTION (BBC Radio Four) , nimbly directed by Peter Kavanagh, took just under an hour to sweep through 25 years in the lives of two condemned political prisoners, and a woman and her priest  back home.  The plot turned on deceptive love letters. Michael Maloney (Pedrillo)  and Pip Donaghy (Saul) were respectively impassioned and unscrupulous  as the ill-matched cell-mates, but it was Adjoah Andoh (Pedrillo's girlfriend Jose-Manuela)  who carried the real theme, the power of words.  </B></div> <div> <B>A rapid succession of final audio snapshots - a prison farewell, school bell, firing squad, mass demonstration - rounded-off the political action, as Jose-Manuela privately declared her renewed faith in language.</B></div> <div> <B>All this would have cost a fortune to film and its big idea - our best actions can spring from a sincere misunderstanding of others' words - would have not  been the very fabric of the action.  Like Jose-Manuela, all we had were words from the dark.  I think Madga tried to tell me about her day somewhere in the middle, but I was miles away.</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <div> <B>===</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>