“This doesn’t feel like home, because it’s not. It’s nobody’s home, so nobody care for it.”
This is an outsider’s description of living or, rather, existing inside London. Croatian-born playwright Tena Stivicic offers a different view of our capital with her pitch-black-humoured drama. All of the characters are immigrants, each of them struggling to get life to start working in their favour. Their experiences range from brutal war crimes and enforced prostitution through to a wannabe artist from New Zealand obliged to make a living as a social worker.
Douglas Henshall plays a macho foreign correspondent with a taste for drink and drugs, and Catherine Cusack is the beautiful but irreparably damaged woman he left behind in Bosnia.
(Jane Anderson – Radio Times 3-9 May 2008)
The Friday Play: Fragile !
Friday 09 May 2008
9:00pm - 9:58pm
BBC Radio 4
A foreign correspondent, traumatised by the death of a girl he met in Bosnia, begins to pick up the threads of his life with a Croatian girl he has met back in London. Then he hears that a young refugee is looking for him, someone who didn't die in Bosnia after all.
By Tena Stivicic
Tiasha Catherine Cusack
Erik Douglas Henshall
Mila Rayisa Kondraki
Marco Serge Soric
Gayle Luanne Gordon
Michi Steve Hodson
Producer Frank Stilling