The Cast:
Mother - Polly James
Alex - Rory Hannah
Tony - Philip Dowd
Heart - Stephen Ley
Brain - Alec Linstead
Direction by Richard Shannon
The Playwright:
Vikki Morris won the
Woolwich Young Radio Playwrights'
Competition in 1996/7 at the age of 20, while she was in her second year of
studying for a degree in Creative Writing and Drama at Derby University. She has
just completed the degree this summer. As well as creative writing, Vikki was
also involved in writing for the University's magazine, Eclipse, as its
film and theatre critic. Other Derby graduates have also won the Woolwich
competition: Michael Percival in 1995 and Paul Williamson in
1998.
Ken Garner, writing in the Radio Review of The Express on Sunday (19th July
1998), said: "If you have access to the Internet, you can hear Vikki
Morris's original play Whose Fault Is It Anyway?, broadcast to Londoners
on LBC Sunday Playhouse but available on Independent Radio Drama Productions'
acclaimed website (www.irdp.co.uk) as its
Internet Play of the Month for July - one neat idea the BBC's website doesn't
offer. Morris's play about a young drug addict gave voices to his internal
organs, as they struggled to cope with the abuse. "Brain, this is Heart,
what's happening?". This simple technique made the predictable ending all
the more tragic." |
