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| Bluey
(1993) |
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4m) |
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| SYNOPSIS |
HILARY HAWKINS is a judge who
has reached a crisis of confidence. A suppressed incident
from the past has been working corrosively within his sub-conscious.
A particularly nasty court case stirs memory of an incident
during his student days when he worked on a building site,
and reluctantly became involved with other builders in stealing
lead from a roof which they were repairing. Failing to shout
a warning before throwing down the lead HILARY badly scars
a plumber's face. At the height of his crisis he goes in quest
of the plumber. When he finds him he can only stand and observe
him from a distance imagining three possible outcomes of a
confrontation he has not the courage to face, as years ago
he had not the courage face a dying old sweetheart. |
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| EXCERPT |
| "I didn't
ring. Made no contact at all. She'd been so pretty, such a sweet and
generous soul, I just couldn't face her dying…I'd have wept.
She'd have seen her dying in my eyes. Wasn't strong enough for the
pain of that. Nor the pain of anything. Something had snapped in me.
Disaster headlines in the press and I'd move on. The sight of starving
children on television, I'd weep. If I saw rudeness in my children
or insensitivity I'd rage…I was incapable of giving comfort…
And I was so ashamed. Audrey would have come to my deathbed. With
all her lack of sophistication, her absence of what's called `good
taste' she would have found the right tone of voice, pitched her sunniness
at the right angle. Not too high, not too bright, not too hot - but
a cool summer's evening full of drunk bees and trivia." |
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| REVIEWS |
| A
High Court judge sitting alone, in anguish and in judgement on himself
…a riveting work … The London Evening Standard |
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| Bluey is slang word for lead. This was
originally a radio play, 'The European Radio Commission' written in
1984. |
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