TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE
(2018)

TIS PITY SHE’S A WHORE | DRAMA ON 3 | BBC RADIO 3

9 – 10.45pm
7 January 2018

Cast and Production

Annabella – Jessie Buckley
Giovanni – Damien Molony
Signor Florio – Niall Buggy
Putana – Fenella Woolgar
Friar Bonaventura – Oliver Cotton.
Lord Soranzo – Matthew Pidgeon,
Vasques – Enzo Cilenti,
Hippolita – Indira Varma.
Grimaldi – Gary Duncan,
Cardinal – Neil McCaul,
Officer – Adam Fitzgerald
Dorando – Tayla Kovacevic-Ebong.

The original song – In Deep – composed by Jules Maxwell, and sung by Jessie Buckley, Indira Varma, and Abby Andrews

Introduction by Professor Emma Smith from Hertford College, Oxford.

Adapted and directed by Pauline Harris.

Official Synopsis

Compassionate and disturbing, John Ford’s great story of doomed love between a brother and sister in this new, visceral production for radio, intercut with the music of Jimi Hendrix and Nick Cave.

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