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Hollow

by

Michael Johnson

Read by awl on Monday 14th November 2005

A dinner party at the home of a charismatic but domineering science professor, attended by his family, his son's girl friend, another scientist from Anthony's department, and a mystery guest.

The antagonisms within the family gradually develop while the host tries to gain the upper hand over his mystery guest. Why is he a mystery? How do the relationships change in the course of the evening ...?
Margaret Hollow: 52, a housewife.
Long-suffering, house-proud, sings in the symphony choir, tends her garden and listens avidly to radio 4
 Elizabeth Graham
Granny: nearly 80, Margaret‚s Mother-in-Law.
Extremely feisty. Was dropped into France in 1944.
 Jenny Lathan
David: 27, Margaret and Anthony's son.
Was a Ph.D. student, now happy as a car salesman. Hates his dad, loves his mum and his Gran.
 Steve Aspin
Helen: 25, David's girl friend.
Attractive. An actors' agent. Lively.
 Annie Overton

Anthony Hollow: mid-fifties,
a charismatic professor of medicinal chemistry.
A very charismatic, self-promoting, cruel, sarcstic, absolute bastard womaniser. A highly polished lecturer.

Paul Antony-Barber
Isabelle Matheson: 40, a junior colleague of Anthony.
Bit of chip on her shoulder about women in science, even though she is doing very well, having synthesised a drug to combat Alzheimer's. Was once passionate about Anthony (scientifically and emotionally) but recently disillusioned.
 Melissa Docker
Giles Pontecorvo: mid-fifties,
an Englishman who has lived in the USA for a number of years (he could be white, black or mixed as his mum was English and his dad an American soldier at the end of the war. He is also a chemist, but less ambitious. Supposedly meeting Anthony for the first time, though they have crossed swords twice before in life. The name Giles Pontecorvo is a pseudonym so that, for half the play, Anthony does not recognize their past connection.
 Martin Wimbush
Directed by
 Angelique Fernandez

 

  

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