Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil, a science-fiction illustrator; Kim, a woman rock musician; Vermilion, an analyst of satellite photography; and Julian, an old friend of the illustrator who has just finished his Ph.D thesis on the fairy-tales of Charles Perrault. Their four lives are closely interlinked as events happen to each of them.
Gavin Richards
Neil Holt
Lora Logic
Kim
Mary Maddox
Vermilion
Jeff Rawle
Julian
Maggie Shevlin
Narrator
Patrick Bauchau
Husband
Alan Porter
Magician
Keith Allen
Monologist
Chuck Hayward
Band Member (as Charles Hayward)
Experimental drama set in London during the Thatcher administration involving four characters: Neil, a science-fiction illustrator; Kim, a woman rock musician; Vermilion, an analyst of satellite photography; and Julian, an old friend of the illustrator who has just finished his Ph.D thesis on the fairy-tales of Charles Perrault. Their four lives are closely interlinked as events happen to each of them.
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