The Twyborn Affair
BBC Radio 3 adaptation
To be broadcast on Sunday 27th Sepember 2009 8:00pm to 9:30pm.
Check out BBC Radio 3 on the web to listen to the play on line.
The programme will also be available online for one week after its first broadcast on BBC iplayer Radio 3.
Penny Downie and Julian Rhind-Tutt start in the first-ever adaptation of Nobel Prize-winner Patrick White's provocative and mysterious novel about sexual identity. Eadie was no good as a mother - raising eyebrows in Edwardian Sydney society was more exciting and anyway her child kept running away. Now in her old age, she hopes to rekindle family affections. As the London Blitz begins, the Twyborns reveal their unconventional choices.
Production details:
- Dramatised by DJ Britton
- Directed by Alison Hindell.
Main Cast:
- Julian Rhind-Tutt ....... Eddie
- Penny Downie ....... Eadie
- Hattie Morahan ....... Joan
- Philip Quast ....... Don Prowse
- Leigh Funnelle ....... Marcia
- John Rowe ....... Angelos/Rod
- David Henry ....... Curly/Greg
- Manon Edwards ....... Peggy/Ada
- Piers Wehner ....... Driver
- Emerald O'Hanrahan ....... Bridie
- Joseph Cohen-Cole ........ Philip
Synopsis:
‘The Twyborn Affair’, it is a novel by Australian Nobel Laureate Patrick White, published in 1979, which deals with the controversial topic of homo and bi-sexuality, its main focus is on identity, and its different viewpoints of masculine/feminine. Set first in Australia , then France 1914, then a sheep station in Australia's Outback in the inter-war period, and finally in London just before the Second World War.
It covers the various traumatic emotional experiences of the central character Eddie Twyborn. Eddie is bisexual/Transsexual and beautiful, the son of a Judge and a alcoholic mother, who tries to conform to expectations of pre-WWII Australian masculinity but cannot, and instead post-war, tries out another identity and gender. His search for identity, self-affirmation and love takes us into the ambiguous landscapes, sexual, psychological and spiritual, of the human condition.
The interactions, sexual identity and gender confusion/conflict of so many characters and raw emotions are perhaps too brutal in their forthrightness, but all in all this is a wonderfully written, uncompromising and honest book.
The Book is available online at amazon.co.uk
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