ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER: ROAD (TV)
Summary
One in this series of arts programs featuring the work of leading avant-garde artists in video, music, dance, theater, and film. An adaptation of Jim Cartwright's stage play directed by Alan Clarke, "Road" is a raw contemporary drama set in working-class northern England which reflects the cross-generational rage of the disengaged and unemployed. Progressing through a series of scenes depicting familial arguments and longing soliloquies -- sometimes spoken directly to the camera -- by embittered hopeless people who are nostalgic for the past, this drama climaxes in the encounter between a quartet of emotionally-wounded adults who meet at a run-down dance hall. Hoping to liberate themselves from their frustrations and listlessness, the foursome become intoxicated, listen to Otis Redding music, and rant about their inconsolable bitterness in a desperate attempt to unearth a modicum of hope for the future. This program is close-captioned.
(Series title varies; as above, 1985-1991; as "Alive TV," 1992 onward.) Cataloging of this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS
- DATE: September 13, 1990
- RUNNING TIME: 0:57:14
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:38104
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Drama
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1985-1996
- COMMERCIALS:
CREDITS
- For "Alive From Off Center"
- John Schott … Executive Producer
- John Ligon … Executive Producer
- Gerald Richman … Executive in Charge
- Di Lorenzo, Eugenio H. … Production (Misc.), Production Manager
- Citizen M … Theme music by
- Newton/Bard Music … Music (Misc. Credits), Additional Music
- For "Road"
- AndrŽe Molyneux … Producer
- David M. Thompson … Producer
- Corin Campbell-Hill … Production (Misc.), Production Manager
- Paul Judges … Production (Misc.), Production Manager
- Alan Clarke … Director
- Jim Cartwright … Writer
- Neil Dudgeon … Cast, Brink
- Jane Horrocks … Cast, Louise
- Andrew Wilde … Cast, Brother
- William Armstrong … Cast, Eddie
- Willy Ross … Cast, Dad
- Alan David … Cast, Jerry
- Mossie Smith … Cast, Carol
- Barbara Keogh … Cast, Brenda
- Lesley Sharp … Cast, Valerie
- Susan Brown … Cast, Helen
- Tim Dantay … Cast, Soldier