~ @arplay PLAYBILL EARPLAY SEASON 1976/77 PROGRAM #1 EDWARD ALBEE'S LISTENING A new drama by American playwright Edward Albee starring Irene Worth, Maureen Anderman and James Ray co-produced with the BBC. A play about people who talk to each other without listening to what is being said. Time: 90 minutes Program #2 JB by Archibald MacLeish Robert Lansing, Nancy Marchand, Keene Curtis and Donald Davis star in this adaptation of MacLeish's famous Broadway play which re-tells the Old Testament story of Job. Time: 120 minutes Program #3 MAN_AND SUPERMAN by George Bernard Shaw A BBC production of the classic Shaw play which dramatizes the eternal battle of the sexes with Alec McCowen and Anna Massey in starring roles. Time: 120 minutes Program #4 A VISIT WITH JOHN HOWARD GRIFFIN An autobiographical sound portrait with reminiscences by John Howard Griffin, author of Black Like Me, and readings from his works. Co-produced with the CBC. Time: 120 minutes MORE News For more information contact | neet SAoos ey Steet. St Poul, Minnesota S510] Phone (612) 291-2666 The radio dara production center for public broadcasting project of Minnesota Public Radio in cooperation wth the Tinversy of Wisconsin. Funded by the Comporation for Pubic Broadoasting ard the National endowment fo The AsPROGRAM #5 CAUSE CELEBRE by Sir Terence Rattigan A new radio play telling the true story of the Rattenbury-Stoner murder trial starring Diana Dors and co-produced with the BBC. Time: 120 minutes PROGRAM #6 A DOLL'S HOUSE by Henrik Tbsen A new adaptation of this classic play which tells the story of a sheltered woman who leaves her husband to navigate on her own, co-produced with the Guthrie Theater of Minneapolis. Time: 120 minutes PROGRAM #7 MY NAME IS BIRD MCKAT by Anne Leaton A young woman is obsessed with finding a destiny to match the unusual name she was born with and finds herself discussing her fate with an Indian named Red Eagle in the Arizona Desert. Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #8 ISA LE OYSTER by Giles Cooper A fast-paced British comedy about a simple clerk who, after twenty-five years of loyal service, spends his first night away from home on a company expense account. and ‘THE LITTLE BLACK HOLE by Alan Gosling A conversation between a husband and wife -- one dead and one alive -- as they talk about their life together in both tender and blunt words. Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #9) THE DAY JOHN WILLIAM FELL DOWN THE STAIRS AND DIED by James W. Nichol A play about a small town at the tum of the century and one of its MOREmost respected citizens, John William Elliot, who is plagued by an incident in his youth and is driven over the edge by fear and drink. Ti 60 minutes PROGRAM #10 KOWALSKI'S LAST CHANCE by Leo Simpson A comedy about a policeman who has seen only the mean side of life and how he is talked into believing in leprechauns. and TIGER by Derek Raby A play about a ten year old boy who visits the zoo and finds out, first hand, what the tigers think of their human captors. Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #11. TWENTY YEARS OF TWILIGHT by Marian Waldman A play about growing old gracefully in the Twilight Lodge, a home for the elderly. One resident tries to show that the world is not necessarily only for the young. Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #12 MR._LUBY'S FEAR OF HEAVEN by John Mortimer Sir John Gielgud, as Lewis Luby, longs for a new life when he finds himself in an ancient Italian hospital that looks like heaven -- almost. A comedy by John Mortimer, co-produced with the BBC. Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #13 THE AUSTERE GWENDOLINE PARKER ELLIOT by James W. Nichol In this story about the small town of Kingforks at the tum of the century, a young boymoves the residents to vengeance and violence. Time: 60 minutes o\ proauot 14 ‘THE OLD ONE TWO by A.R. Gurney, Jr. A comedy about an aging university professor and a young female student who brings him back to life and out of his books. Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #15 RANDOM MOMENTS IN A MAY GARDEN by James Saunders A poignant play which contrasts the Life lived by the new owners of an old Victorian home with that of the original residents. Time: 60 minutes procera #16 THE MAZE by Stewart Ferrar A mystery melodrama set in the laboratory of a research scientist who thinks he has discovered a drug that will vastly increase intelligence. Time: 60 minutes ont ‘THE MIDNIGHT MOCKER by Leo Goldman A late-night disc jockey and a morning talk show host battle it out in this drama of cynicism versus optimism. and SCAT MELISMA by Kirk Nurock A sound oratorio combining interesting instrumental colors with human voices creating "natural sounds". Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #18 HAYWIRE AT HUMBLEFORD FLAG by Ken Whitmore A small English town goes haywire when a proper Eton schoolmaster arrives to take up teaching duties in this BBC production. Time: 60 minutes MOREPROGRAM #19 ‘THE CODICIL TO MARY PURTY'S WILL by James W. Nichol In the continuing series of plays about the residents of Kingforks, a young woman marries the richest landowner in town but finds herself in love with the town drunk. Time: 60 minutes ON PROGRAM #20 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, PART I by Feodor Dostoevski A BBC adaptation of the classic Russian novel. In part one of this three part drama, the student Raskolnikov murders an old woman and tries to justify his action through a confused sense of his own destiny. Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #21 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, PART II by Feodor Dostoevski The student Raskolnikov plays a game of psychological conbat with the police chief. Time: 60 minues PROGRAM #22 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, PART III by Feodor Dostoevski Raskolnikov, driven over the edge, confesses and accepts responsibility for his crime in this final act of the classic Russian story. Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #23 THE GRAPPLING COURT by David Kranes While a basketball game rumbles overhead, three students, two boys and a girl, play out a primitive battle in the pitch darkness of the college gymnasiun. Time: 60 minues PROGRAM #24 UNDER THE LOOFAH TREE by Giles Cooper A British comedy in which the ritual weekly bath becomes a man's castle when one Englishman refuses to MOREget out of the tub. and DINOSAURS by John Antrobus A short comedy about a man who visits a museum to view the remains of the once-powerful beasts of prehistoric ‘times, staring Goon Show regular Spike Milligan. | Time: 60 minutes “\vprocra #25 TRUCKER by Paula Shiller An acoustic documentary recorded on the road with cross-country truck drivers. Time: 60 minutes PROGRAM #26 ‘THE SUMMER OF TIMOTHY ONCE by James W. Nichol In the continuing series of stories about Kingforks, a young man tries to find solace and rest in the small town but is caught in the evil web of the town's past. Time: 60 minutes END