Howard Barker - Scenes From An Execution (BBC R3 1984)

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Howard Barker – Scenes from an Execution

Sun 14th Oct 1984, 19:00 on BBC Radio 3

At the height of Venetian power art and politics clash in Renaissance Venice when Galactia  is commissioned to paint in the form of a massive canvas "The Battle of Lepanto", a naval victory in which Venice triumphed over the Turk.

Such an important commission by the patronage of the Doge of Venice is seen by some as an "opportunity to promote the rights of women" while Galactia sees it from the position of the individual artist and her creation. Instead of the expected "glorious triumph", she chooses to paint the horror of war and sets out on a disastrous course which threatens

to dishonour the state and put her life at risk.

Winner of the 1985 'Prix Italia for Best Drama'

CAST:

Galactia - Glenda Jackson

The Doge of Venice Freddie Jones

Carpeta - Clive Merrison

The Admiral Suffici - Clifford Rose

The Cardinal Ostensile - Peter Howell

Gina Rivera - Darlene Johnson

The Sketchbook - Brett Usher

Prodo / Third Sailor - David Sinclair

Supporta - Elizabeth Rider

Dementia - Helena Breck

Sordo / First Sailor - Anthony Hall

Official - Peter Acre

Second Sailor - Mark Straker

The Man in the Next Cell - Jon Strickland

Directed by Richard Wortley