Radio plays

"Forces of Nature

Author: David Lescot (France 1971)
Genre: Radio play
Production: SR/DLR 2005
Translation: Götz Naleppa
Editing: Götz Naleppa
Length: 60 min.
Director: Götz Naleppa
Assistant Director: Thomas Doktor
Sound: Lutz Pahl

Participants: Geneviève: Maria Hartmann
Evelin: Andrea Sawatzki
Simon: Gerd Wameling
Jacques: Detlef Jacobsen
Moderator: Nadja Martina Schulz-Berlinghoff
Fabien: Frank Hessenland
Martin: Andreas Erfurth
Guibe: Norbert Langer
Patrice: Alexander Khuon
Sylvie: Claudia Hübbecker
Gilles: Wolfgang Condrus
Editor-in-Chief: Hans Peter Hallwachs
Trainee: Maxim Mehmet

Content:
What would life be like without radio? A lot poorer, if you believe the opinion polls. In his radio play, David Lescot brings together a wide variety of people who are stimulated, excited, moved, calmed or left indifferent by the radio... Simon and Geneviève are expecting a work colleague and his wife for Sunday lunch. The weather is fine, so Simon could assemble the new garden chairs for the meal on the terrace. But Geneviève would rather listen to the weather forecast again, better safe than sorry, except that the radio is constantly reporting on this one-man sailing competition, which in turn distracts Simon from his Herculean task. Lescot has modelled his characters on reality, he is a master of situation comedy and this also includes an ironic look at the main character: the radio.