Trapped
TRAPPED.
BY ROBERT BURNS.
INTRODUCTION TO WORKSHOP RECORDING.
THE FOLLOWING STORY IS CONCERNED WITH THE SPRINGING FROM GAOL OF AN ILLITERATE SEMI - RETARDED GIANT OF A MAN CALLED FRANK MATSON BY POWERFUL UNDERWORLD BOSSES, WHO PLAN TO USE HIM IN AN ALL OUT GANGLAND WAR.
AS THE TALE UNFOLDS, IT BECOMES APPARENT THAT BOTH THE MAN ON THE RUN, FRANK MATSON AND HIS GANGLAND MINDERS ARE CAUGHT IN A WEB OF VIOLENCE, WHICH IS RAPIDLY SPIRALLING OUT OF CONTROL.
AS TENSION MOUNTS AS PLANS GO WRONG, THE STORY CHARTS THE EXPLOSIVE MOOD SWINGS OF THE UNTAMED MATSON, AS TOGETHER WITH HIS EQUALLY IMPRISONED COMPANION, A FORMER NIGHTCLUB HOSTESS CALL TINA MANDEL, HIS BLIND FAITH IN THE MAN WHO MASTER MINDED HIS ESCAPE IS GRADUALLY DESTROYED.
CHARACTERS.
1 |
FRANK MATSON - AN ESCAPED CONVICT |
2 |
TINA MANDEL - A NIGHTCLUB HOSTESS |
3 |
THE BROTHERS - ALBIE AND LENNIE DYE |
4 |
DONAVAN - ALBIE'S CHIEF MINDER |
5 |
SCOTCH MULKAY - FRIENDLY GUARD |
OTHER MEMBERS OF THE FIRM
6 |
JERRY LAINE - FINANCIAL ADVISER |
7 |
CHARLIE BIRD - FUND RAISING ENFORCER |
8 |
BIG JIM BAILEY - DEBT COLLECTOR |
9 |
MATT RAPSON - TORTURER |
GUARDS TO FRANK MATSON- HORTON, STOKOE, POKER BRYANT&TIPPER HARRIS.
OTHER CHARACTERS.
1 |
MAFIA AGENT -ABE SECURA&NICK FALDINI |
2 |
RIGG -A FORMER JAILBIRD |
3 |
LORD BOOTHROY D - BENT POLITICIAN |
4 |
LORNA LEESO -AN AMERICAN FILM STAR |
5 |
BERNIE LEISS -HER AGENT |
6 |
RITA LOOS -A NIGHTCLUB SINGER |
7 |
SWANAGE/STAGG –UNDERLING THUGS |
TRAPPED.
SUMMARY OF SCENES.
ACT ONE.
1 |
FIRST PORT OF CALL - A FLAT IN DOCKLAND |
2 |
THE MANOR CLUB - AN EAST END DRINKING DEN |
3 |
THE HIDEAWAY - A FLAT IN ROMFORD ROAD |
4 |
THE WIDOWS - A PUB IN EAST LONDON |
5 |
THE HIDEAWAY - THE FLAT IN ROMFORD ROAD |
6 |
THE WASHINGTON - A WEST END NIGHTCLUB |
7 |
THE HIDEAWAY - THE FLAT IN ROMFORD ROAD |
8 |
THE OFFICE - A HOUSE IN HOXTON |
ACT TWO.
1 |
THE HIDEAWAY - THE FLAT IN ROMFORD ROAD |
2 |
THE TRAPDOOR - AN EAST END PUB |
3 |
THE HIDEAWAY - THE FLAT IN ROMFORD ROAD |
4 |
THE OFFICE - THE HOUSE IN HOXTON |
5 |
THE HIDEAWAY - THE FLAT IN ROMFORD ROAD |
Music
- Swinging City
- Gösta Berling Extracts
- Journey to a Different World
- Songs from three musicals
- Blood and Fire
- Gösta Berling Act One
- Gösta Berling Act Two
- Instrumental Music
Drama
- Script Only
- The Redundants
- Trapped - Workshop recordings
- Night Train to Rome
- Behind The Mask
- Spin Off
- A Trip out East
- On the verge
- In Search of Freedom
- The Shades of Earl's Court Part 1
- The Shades of Earl's Court Part 2
- Hotchpotch 1
- Hotchpotch 2
- Hotchpotch 3