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Radio debuts of Black Watch and Splendour part of summer drama highlights on Radio 3
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Black Watch – Gregory Burke's critically acclaimed and award winning play – receives its broadcast premiere on Drama On 3, part of an exciting summer drama line-up on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 3.
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Other highlights include new radio adaptations of Abi Morgan's Splendour and Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband.
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Described as "an unauthorised biography of the legendary Scottish regiment," Black Watch was the must-see play at last year's Edinburgh Fringe Festival and is currently touring Scotland.
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Hurtling from a pool room in Fife to an armoured wagon in Iraq, Black Watch tells the story of the famous Scottish army regiment through their own voices based on interviews conducted with former soldiers by Gregory Burke.
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A National Theatre of Scotland production, directed by John Tiffany, Black Watch has won a Herald Angel, a Scotsman Fringe First, a Best Theatre Writing Award from The List, a Stage Award for Best Ensemble, and The South Bank Show Award for Theatre.
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Also making its radio debut is the award-winning Splendour by Abi Morgan (Sex Traffic, Tsunami: The Aftermath).
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Set in an unnamed European presidential palace on the eve of revolution, four women wait for the return of the president. As they wait they talk and it becomes clear the president may not return. Sian Phillips and Anna Massey lead the cast.
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Drama On 3 will also broadcast a new radio adaptation of An Ideal Husband, Oscar Wilde's play about blackmail and political corruption in late 19th century society, and David Pownall's Elgar's Rondo.
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Part of Radio 3's Elgar season, Elgar's Rondo explores the composer's complex feelings in the latter period of his life following the unfavourable response to the premiere of his second symphony. The cast includes David Horovitch, Emma Fielding and Robert Glenister.
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Other plays to be broadcast this summer include The Two Gentlemen Of Valasna, and two specially-commissioned plays for Drama On 3, Bora Bistrah and Seven Wonders Of The Divided World.
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Adapted from Shakespeare's The Two Gentleman of Verona, The Two Gentlemen Of Valasna relocates the story to India in the weeks leading up to the 1857 Indian Mutiny. It was recorded in English and Hindi, entirely on location in Maharashtra, India with a cast of Indian actors drawn from Bollywood, Indian television and the Indian English theatre tradition.
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In Bora Bistrah, five internationally-based writers, including Kaite O'Reilly and Avaes Mohammad, follow the fate of one matriarch and her lineage dispersed around the world following the partition of Pakistan from India.
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Seven Wonders Of The Divided World explores the tightening of the world's borders, seven writers living near artificial borders around the world tell their stories.
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Drama On 3 summer schedule:
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- Sunday 3 June: Elgar's Rondo by David Pownall
- Sunday 10 June: Black Watch by Gregory Burke
- Sunday 17 June: An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
- Sunday 24 June: Splendour by Abi Morgan
- Sunday 1 July: The Epic Of Gilgamesh (rpt), adapted by Jeremy Howe, from the English version by Stephen Mitchell
- Sunday 8 July: to be confirmed
- Sunday 15 July: to be confirmed
- Sunday 29 July: The Two Gentleman Of Valasna adapted by Ian Spiby and Roger Elsgood
- Sunday 5 August: Feunte Ovejuna (rpt) by Lope de Vega translated Adrian Mitchell
- Sunday 19 August: Bora Bistrah by Kaite O'Reilly, Amadi Adzyaya, Saad Haroun, Tang Ying and Avaes Mohammad
- Sunday 2 September: Don Carlos (rpt) Friedrich Schiller translated Mike Poulton
- Sunday 9 September: Seven Wonders Of The Divided World
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