The White Hotel By Dennis Potter. BBC RADIO DRAMA

The White Hotel
Circus performer Lisa visits famous Berlin psychoanalyst Dr Probst to discover the cause of her mysterious breast and pelvic pains. Reading her sexually charged journal, Probst concludes that the answer lies in her past. But then Lisa reveals her unsettling premonitions - 'I see what is going to happen. And what is going to happen cannot be endured.' Is her trauma really the result of childhood memories or a dark vision of the future?
Dennis Potter's unproduced screenplay of D. M. Thomas' award-winning novel, centres around The White Hotel was taken up by numerous directors, from Bertolucci to David Lynch, with actors including Barbra Streisand and Meryl Streep slated to star - but the project defeated them all. Now, directed by Jon Amiel, who worked with Potter on The Singing Detective, this haunting, hallucinatory drama has finally found an audience.
The play is preceded by a short documentary, The Long Road to the White Hotel, telling the story of the many failed attempts to bring DM Thomas’s novel to the screen and the making of the Radio 4 drama of Potter’s screenplay.
Lisa ..... Anne-Marie Duff
Probst ..... Bill Paterson
Narrator ..... Simon McBurney
The Lover ..... David Gyasi
Victor ..... Nigel Lindsay
Aunt Magda ..... Morwenna Banks
Vera / Old Woman / Wife ..... Jasmine Jones
Captain / Maitre d' / Old Man ..... Nick Underwood
Koyla ..... Felix Jamieson
Little Lisa ..... Tillie Murray
Various ..... Wayne Forester
Written by DM Thomas
Adapted by Dennis Potter
Directed by Jon Amiel
First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in September 2018

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