Joe's Palace' and 'Capturing Mary'

Two major new screenplays by the award-winning Stephen Poliakoffmade for the BBC and HBO Films and due to be broadcast in November2007. A stellar cast led by Michael Gambon and Dame Maggie Smithfeature in these exquisite, major new films that are linked by a grandhouse and memories of the past. In Joe''s Palace , the first of two screenplays, StephenPoliakoff explores the relationship between a reclusive billionaire(played by Michael Gambon), and the teenage boy he employs to take careof a grand house. This is a lavishly shot contemporary film aboutloneliness and loss. In Capturing Mary , the companion film forBBC2 set in the same exquisite empty house, Poliakoff takes hischaracters into a dark and terrifying exploration of the past and itspower to capture and destroy a person''s life. Dame Maggie Smith playsthe lead role. Included also is A Real Summer , a glorious companion drama to Capturing Mary charting the development of an unexpected friendship between a youngaristocratic woman and Mary before she enters the dangerous world of MrGraham''s house.

Product details

• Authors: Stephen Poliakoff, Stephen (Playwright Poliakoff, Stephen Poliakov
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.10.2007
• EAN: 9780713688115
• ISBN: 978-0-7136-8811-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Screen and Cinema; Screen and Cinema
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Fernsehen, TV