Celebrating Stoppard: Albert's Bridge
Tom Stoppard's prize-winning early radio play, in a 1988 production. Albert has a philosophy degree and a job painting bridges. Up on the ironwork, he can finally think.
Tom Stoppard's Albert's Bridge is part of Radio 4's Celebrating Stoppard collection.
This is a 1988 production of the play first broadcast in 1967, the year Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead opened at the National Theatre.
Albert is a philosophy graduate who turns the painting of a vast railway bridge into a comic, quixotic search for meaning. Up on the ironwork, suspended above a world that looks reassuringly like a model railway set, he has found something rare: perspective. The only question is how long it can last.
Funny, strange and with serious foundations worn lightly, Albert's Bridge won the Prix Italia and an award at the International Radio Play Festival in Prague.
Albert ..... Paul Copley
Kate ..... Diane Bull
Fraser ..... Geoffrey Matthews
Chairman ..... George A Cooper
Fitch ..... Peter Baldwin
Dave ..... Richard Tate
George ..... John Sampson
Mother ..... Eva Stuart
Father ..... Alan Dudley
Painters ..... Norman Bird & Stephen Rashbrook
Director: David Hitchinson
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