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Radio 4 Extra,24 Apr 2011,90 mins
Kafka the Musical
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The magnetic performance that won David Tennant "Best Actor" at the inaugural ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Audio Drama Awards for his part as Franz Kafka. Murray Gold's play starts from the suitably Kafkaesque premise that Franz Kafka finds he has to play himself in a musical about his own life. The play - or is it the musical? - introduces Kafka and the audience to some of the key characters in his life, Milena Jesenska, Dora Diamant and Felice Bauer. Franz Kafka ..... David Tennant Father ..... David Fleeshman Mother ..... Joanna Monro Milena ..... Naomi Frederick Felice ..... Jessica Raine Dora ..... Emerald O'Hanrahan Barman / Singer / Doctor ..... Trevor Allan Davies Newspaper Seller / Man ..... Brian Bowles Music by Murray Gold. Director: Jeremy Mortimer First broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 in April 2011. *** Murray Gold's first radio play Electricity won the Richard Imison award for best new play after its broadcast on ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3 in 2001. It subsequently transferred to the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2004 and was performed with Christopher Eccleston in the lead role. Other plays include 50 Revolutions performed by the Oxford Stage Company at the Whitehall Theatre, London in 2000 and Resolution at Battersea Arts Centre in 1994, and Little Joe and His Struggle Against the World (Radio 3 2005). Murray has been nominated for a BAFTA four times in the category Best Original Television Music, for Vanity Fair (1999), Queer as Folk (2000), Casanova (2006) and Doctor Who (2008). He wrote the theme tune for the Channel 4 series Shameless and scored the period drama The Devil's Whore. More recently Murray Gold scored another David Tennant series, ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½1's Single Father.
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