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know this TV play from the past? two friends, building project

  • 15-07-2012 1:03pm
    #1
    stabeek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭


    Hi,

    Looking for some help on tracing the name of a BBC/ITV play which was screened in the 1980's. Roughly, two friends, one of which (an architect or structural engineer) has recently landed a building project (referred to as <something> Road where <something> is a prestigious name with a propermeaning: eg. Restoration, Monarchy, or such like) meet for dinner with their spouses/partners and where it surfaces that this project, prestigious though it sounds, has a series of questionable aspects which are debated leading to a confrontation.

    It could be one of the Plays for Today, but equally it could be from late 1980's as well.

    Does it jog anybody's memory? Thanks in adv.

    Cheers!


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  • #2
    FishBowel
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 363 ✭✭FishBowel


    Sounds like an episode of Brookside? There was an architect on that show having a nervous breakdown because his career was going downhill.


  • #3
    stabeek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭stabeek


    Thanks FishBowel, no it wasn't Brookside thanks anyway.


  • #4
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭brian_t


    Sounds like Benefactors - a 1984 play by Michael Frayn.
    It is set in the 1960s and concerns an idealistic architect David and his wife Jane and their relationship with the cynical Colin and his wife Sheila. David is attempting to build some new homes to replace the slum housing of Basuto Road and is gradually forced by circumstances into building skyscrapers despite his initial aversion to these.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benefactors_(play)

    It was broadcast on TV in 1989. The name of the project (<something> Road) could have updated/changed in the TV version.

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1294140/


  • #5
    kitakyushu
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,465 ✭✭✭kitakyushu


    It's up on youtube.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MpzeboGX-nk

    They kept the name Basuto Road. No wonder he had a memory of a road.. They say it about 5 times in the first 30 seconds!.


  • #6
    brian_t
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,790 ✭✭✭brian_t


    It's great what little gems you can find on Youtube these days. That was a bad VHS copy but probably not available anywhere else.

    Obviously by a fan of Alan Rickman considering he was 3rd billed in the opening credits and 2nd in the closing ones.

    I've also recently caught up with two of my favourite BBC plays courtesy of Youtube - "Caught on a Train" also starring Michael Kitchen and "Blue Remembered Hills".


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  • #7
    stabeek
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 142 ✭✭stabeek


    That's it!!! ... totally excellent, thanks brian_t!!!


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