Play for Today: Season 10, Episode 13Dreams of Leaving (17 Jan. 1980)Director:David HareWriter:David Hare |
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Title: Dreams of Leaving (17 Jan 1980)
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William
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Caroline
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Andrew Seear | ... |
Andrew
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Xan
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Johnny Shannon | ... |
Stievel
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Mrs. Alexander
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Julian Littman | ... |
Aaron
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Colin
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Hilton McRae | ... |
Robert
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Tony Mathews | ... |
Gallery Owner
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Gary Holton | ... |
Keith
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Raymond Brody | ... |
Keith's Lawyer
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| David Ryall | ... |
Drunken Journalist
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Maria Harper | ... |
Laura
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George Raistrick | ... |
Doctor
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I would be interested to know whether the quote 'Our lives dismay us.....we have dreams of leaving' originated with David Hare, or whether he was quoting from someone else's work. I have not been able to find it anywhere else. I find it a very haunting phrase, and I had an idea it might have been Yeats--but it seems not, or I would have been able to locate it. I remember seeing this play on television many years ago--I can't remember much about the play itself now, except that it had a bittersweet tone that the quote perfectly expresses. Great performance by a young Bill Nighy, and Kate Nelligan, of course, who featured a lot on British television at the time. Did she also play the mother in the film 'Prince of Tides' a few years later?