BBC R3 - Gregory Whitehead's 'The Club'

Music by Richard Busch

Produced by David Hunter

Broadcast January 1, 2006



On New Year's Eve, 1905, members of a newly founded

New England social and croquet club initiated a  '... bizarre,

gory, and disturbing ritual ...'.



This play observes The Club on New Year's Eve 2005.



Cast

Queen of Clubs - Elizabeth Aspenlieder

Marilyn Mathiessen - Marilyn Hunter

Brace Winter - Gregory Whitehead

Sarah Fitzgibbons - Sara Paul

Mushroom Mike - Mike Dowling

The Curator - Hillary Deeley

Genealogist - George Bergen

Jacqui Rivers - Karen Lee

Narrator - Frieda Hopkins

Charles Dove - Jon Swan

Mira - Anne Undeland

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BBC Blurb

At the height of the American "Gilded Age", the members of an elegant New England social and croquet club performed an elaborate if somewhat distasteful ritual. In 1915 sculptress Frieda Hopkins created "Seven Feet with Four Toes" in solid alabaster. Almost a century later the sculptures now act as iconic magnets for post-feminists and foot fetishists from around the globe. A story that strikes to the fungal roots of the American imagination through noir comedy, investigative expose and the rubato rhythms of melted cocktail music.

Songs composed and performed by Richard Busch Director and sound designer Gregory Whitehead Executive producer David Hunter