“The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.”

April Crawford didn’t even know her mother had been in the army in Cyprus in 1958. That’s where she met her dad. Caitlin McLoughlin arrives at their house 65 years later to go over a statement which her mother signed at the time. Caitlin is a lawyer.

Shootings civilians is murder she says. Even by soldiers in uniform. April knows nothing about the case. April doesn’t want Caitlin to talk to her mother about the ‘incident’ that occurred in 1958 that involved four teenage Greek boys. She says they must have been terrorists. They were just kids.

But Majorie Collins doesn’t need her daughter to talk for her. She remembers it all too well. They were different times but still, ‘it weren’t right.’

A very emotional play. I really enjoyed listening to it.

Written by @martinlytton
Directed by @ebraefield

With:
Emmeline Braefield as April Crawford
Helen Fullerton as Caitlin McLoughlin
Jayne Lloyd as Majorie Collins

Produced by Cat on a Piano Productions 

Music: 
A Revelation by Jeremy Blake
I’ll Remember You by Jeremy Blake
Oud Dance by Doug Maxwell

The Theatrephonic Theme tune was composed by Jackson Pentland
Performed by
Jackson Pentland
Mollie Fyfe Taylor
Emmeline Braefield

Cat on a Piano Productions produce and edit feature films, sketches and radio plays.

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