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Synopsis
Similar
to the formal experimentation of Play, That Time, written in English between 1974 and 1975, intercuts three
monologues from three separate periods of time in the experience
of one character. Only the Listener's face, surrounded by a shock
of white hair, is visible. He is bombarded with three voices representing
three different times in his past. Each voice, 'A', 'B', and 'C'
recall separate stories. The pattern is precise, with each voice
speaking four times during the course of each of three scenes, all
of which are marked off by silences. The first and second scenes offer precise parallel patterns; the third
offers a pattern repeated three times. Time and visions of nothingness
burden each voice. At the end, the isolated head smiles at the prospect
of happiness.
'That
time you went back that last time to look was the ruin still there
where you hid as a child that last time straight off the ferry …'
– That Time
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Director
Charles
Garrad's sculptural and environmental work, which has been shown
all around the world, is concerned with time, memory, the atmospheric
qualities of places and the significance of objects. His direction
credits include Time Passing,
a six-part series for BBC 2. As a designer he has worked on many
films, including The Serpent's
Kiss, The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill but Came Down a Mountain
and two films in the Beckett on Film project: Waiting
for Godot and Act Without Words I. TV drama credits include
the award-winning series Amongst
Women.
'The
choice of camera movements and the changes in picture size are subjective
responses to the text. Audiences have said that they were able to
see the thoughts in [the Listener's] mind as they watched, and I
hope this is the reaction that we have managed to provoke with the
film.'
– Charles Garrad
Interview
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Cast
Niall
Buggy has won many awards for his theatre work, including an
Irish Theatre Best Actor award for Uncle
Vanya and an Olivier Best Comic Actor award for Dead
Funny. His films include The
Butcher Boy, Sweeney Todd, Close My Eyes and The Lonely
Passion of Judith Hearne.
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