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When We Are Married By J.B. Priestley
When We Are Married
J.B. Priestley's classic comedy about three couples who receive a rude shock in the midst of their joint silver wedding celebrations.
Albert Parker: Alun Armstrong
Annie Parker: Gwen Taylor
Herbert Soppitt: Alan Bennett
Clara Soppitt: Brenda Blethyn
Joe Helliwell: Michael Jayston
Maria Helliwell: Nicola Pagett
Mrs Northrop: Elizabeth Spriggs
With: Polly James, Cathryn Bradshaw,
Peter Woodthorpe, Timothy Watson,
Deborah Berlin, Paul Panting
and James Taylor
Music: Stuart Hutchinson
Director: Matthew Walters
Saturday-Night Theatre:
Sat 18th Nov 1995
19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM
In the heart of Northern England, three respectable couples, married on the same day, at the same church, and by the same vicar, join to celebrate 25 years of blissful matrimony. Or so they think.
Priestley's premise is simple enough: three Yorkshire couples discover, as they are about to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary, that they were never legally married.
Social embarrassment is followed by a dawning awareness that their lives have been overturned. For the hen-pecked Herbert Soppitt it provides the chance to assert himself against his domineering spouse. But, for two of the women, it offers the prospect of liberation from stuffy and errant husbands. Having opened this particular Ibsenite can of worms, however, Priestley quickly bangs the lid back on again. In particular you wonder how Annie Parker, having acknowledged that her life partner is stingy, dreary and "idiotically conceited" can ever tamely return to the marital cage. [The Guardian 2010]
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