P729 CEEFAX 729 Mon 10 Nov 21:18/00 |B2201209|b16Scenj7|i13BBC|l43000|s—:8 |s—>2÷b÷e|p SCENE T 40 - 12.0u (12.08) 2u September - 4 De cembjr F 27 September - 6 December SP cir: Roger Tonge ###################### ######################################## ############ N NOBO DY HERE KNOWS bz Brian Jenkins ######## ######################################## ########################## A rama about a Catholic boy from Belfast w hi is sent over to L troubles, but ends up bringing the troub les with him. ########################## ######################################## ######## RJ itten "The Cage" for Scene.) DANNYFLA NAGAN is sixteen, and is newly arrived i n London to stay with H ds a lot that surprises him compared wit h his part of B lk safely on their own, everything s|cP729 CEEFAX 729 Mon 10 Nov 21:12/03 |B2202209}a16Scenj7|j13BBC|l4337A|s—:8 |s—>2÷b÷e|pjems bigger fluent, and the local kids have a differ emt street wisdom. D e family adds to the strains between his cousin KATHY and the cri sis comes when TONY excludes Kathy from the IFD s a car, and he, Kathy and two local s head for the bright lights. FB ground information about Belfast see the notes to the previous S me Belfast phrasjsW lay truant n the dole a dander" = go for a walk S rotations from the play': TONYY a man coming "jaring stories - nobody h ere knows anything of DANNY There's something to walking about over there - you can live with A as none of your ones are shot. Touc|cP729 CEEFA( 729 Mon 10 Nov 21:22/24 |B2203209}b16Scenj7|i13BBC|l43703|s—:8 |s—>2÷b÷e|phjd. But if one of you r DANNYI nobody cares about me - I'm not bothered neither. KATHYY DANNY : (Looks around the police station yard , then at her) "I'm caught". -1- H I ith PETER FERRIS who plays the part of D annz': PF his is his first television appearance. He is a Protestant from Belfast, who liv ed what he called 'a sheltered y from the trouble spots. He came over to drama school in L WI st came to London I used to walk into sh ops and hold mz arms security man to frisk mj - of course tha t doesn't I end I was stopping to look for something . IB machines, metal detectors, and they k jvjtybody like at airports. But i|cP729 CEEFAX 729 Mon 10 Nov 21:16/49 |B2204209}b16Scenj7|j13BBC|l43A9A|s—:8 |s—>2÷b÷e|pt's getting less and le ss now, it "With Belfast it's like the Brixton riot s, or Toxteth - you could bj in L r Liverpool at the time and it wouldn't have affected you ... we nto the bad areas - you don't ko into th at area. U become a thing on the news every night somebody's been killed. It's not that p eople have stopped caring, you news and you think, God not another one , you feel sorry for it out - try and get on with your own l ife, hope it u know. It's been going on for eighteen years, Y he news and you watch Starskz and Hutch and there's people being killed on the b oth of them, one of them's real other ism't, but the feeling's almost th e same. LBP729 CEEFAX 729 Mon 10 Nov 21:23/00 |B2205209}a16Scenj7|i13BBC|l43E05}s—:8 |s—>2÷b÷e|pnt, yes - but I'vj live d in Belfast all mz life I been caught in a bomb scare, I'vj njvjr been caught in a I e over to London, and I'ue had two bottl es thrown play. And the day before yesterday sit ting BI run past the bus carrying a sawn-off otgun, with the police after him, and I couldn't believe it, I thought I home, I'm safer there. M ut Belfast make out there's an out-and-o ut war going on ay, there was a line in it about the Abe scorn, a e of Belfast, and Danny says to Kathy: You'd like it there, it's mixed, all sid es go." That was the first time I ard in a play about Northern Ireland, so mjbody talking a bit of we can all live together, we do all|cP729 CEEFAX 729 Mon 10 Nov 21:10/32 |B2206209}b16Scenj7|j13BBC|l4416D|s—:8 |s—>2÷b÷e|p live together, we can survive. I he whole play was the relationship bjtwe en TJKD as so much tension in it, jealousy on l sides, mixed with the love of a family , even though Danny found Tony noying, hj was still an uncle, there was still that. I who really wants to make his mark somjwh ere, hj ething and he wants to succeed, and the only prospect he's got is the dole, and he can't see any way to make his he steals this care to prove to Kathy t hat he can do and bj . And also he's jrightened, he looks a tough guy, but of that is a definite act, hj's an Iris h boy on his own, slap bang e of London ... he's acting tough becaus e hj's scared, hj's HP729 CEEFAX 729 Mon 10 Nov 21:10/54 |B2207209}a16Scenj7|i13BBC|l444FF|s—:8 |s—>2÷b÷e|p was emotionally damage d, hj couldn't show emotion, hj was frig htenjd W nyonj to know he was hurt. That's why h e K nos to fancy her, but hj might lose and hj'd bj hurt bz that. He can't sha re his emotions, and when hj I aught" he actually leans on her, and itW s the first time he ody else, although I think he's a charac tet that's ht from the start, he really could do wi th AFTERTHE PROGRAMME' HD lens typical of life in any city, not ju st B D to see a policeman walking on his own - but why Do you think Belfast police are like police anywhere? WD find it hard to get on with his uncl|cP729 CEEFA( 729 Mon 10 Nov 21:14/)6 |B2208209|b16Scenj7|j13BBC|l4486D|s—:8 |s—>2÷b÷e|pj Is the fact t Tony's a security man at all relevant? D Belfast. How has that affected him and his relationships with other people . K t she still makes the jirst move and kisses Danny. Why doesn't Danny make t he first move? DD car to give Kathy a good time? Or to i mpress OMP l in their place Or does hj need xcitemjnt, or what? W plodes, what does Danny see in his image nation in the W on in hes mind Is hj just "mad", as M outh I at Mouth just talks about things but Dan nz A end of the play, Danny says "I'm caught ". Does he just mean by or "z Kathy? IP729 CEEFAX 729 Mon 10 Nov 21:11/18 |B2209209}b16Scenj7|j13BBC|l44BDF|s—:8 |s—>2÷b÷e|pings of hope at the ind of the play - has Danny all? LB ed Danny in various ways - does the environment we live in always affect us ? In what ways? Does violence und make us violent, for example? Danny was sent away to get a break from Belfast, as thousands of le have been in real life. Does this se em a good idea to I y to make a difference t their attitudes when they act? NNP wet - Do We have a Choice?' will be dcast on 20 and 21 Novjmbjr. &