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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 …' 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.'
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