Hangover Square

Dramatised by Sam Boardman-Jacobs

Patrick Hamilton's novel is set in pre-war Earls Court. Everyone is frantically pursuing a good time, and George is obsessed by Netta, a bit-part actress and pace-setter of a fast-living crowd.

George Harvey Bone: Nicholas Farrell

Netta: Amanda Redman

Peter: David Thorpe

Enid: Sara Coward

Johnnie: Christopher Scott

Eddie Carstairs: John Webb

Ellen: Patricia Gallimore

Albert Drexel: John Baddeley

Alex: Richard Pearce

George's aunt: Veda Warwick

Eddie's secretary! barmaid:

Louise Papillon

Director Sue Wilson

Saturday Night Theatre: 

Sat 20th Aug 1994

19:50 on BBC Radio 4 FM

Written in the shadow of the approaching second world war, the novel tells the tale of a man at battle with himself and the world around him

On Christmas Day 1939 Patrick Hamilton began writing Hangover Square, a novel that adopts those agonising weeks and months as its backdrop and brings the reader as close as possible to the feeling of a society – a world – unable to arrest its slide into the abyss. Yet it is another sort of abyss – an entirely personal one – that is the focus of Hamilton’s story. At the very instant we meet his protagonist, George Harvey Bone, he has plunged into one of his “dead” moods, a fugue state in which his mind shuts down and he proceeds through the world as an automaton, an experience akin to “a silent film without music”. . . .

The Guardian.

2016

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