Another Time, Another Place

Rehearsed reading of a play by Anne Downie

(based on the novel by Jessie Kesson )

Set in the Black Isle, Scotland, during the Second World War , the billeting of three Italian prisoners of war in an isolated farming community and their effect on young Janie, with a sexual re-awakening and glimpses of a more exotic world, result in a devastating outcome for her and farmhand husband and a feeling of her permanent entrapment.

Anne Downie is a writer and actor, trained at the Royal Conservatoire and a graduate of Glasgow University. Her plays include Waiting On One, which won the prestigious Plays on Stage Award from Thames TV and was performed by Wildcat Theatre, touring Scotland with performances at Kings Theatre, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. She also wrote The Witches of Pollok, commissioned by Tron Theatre as part of Glasgow’s European City of Culture productions, and Parking Lot in Pittsburgh, performed at the Byre Theatre and on a commercial tour including Kings Theatres, Edinburgh and Glasgow. Her adaptation of Betsy Whyte’s The Yellow on the Broom toured Scotland with Winged Horse, including productions in Perth, Dundee, and Pitlochry, while her adaptation of Jessie Kesson’s The White Bird Passes, commissioned by Theatre Workshop, toured throughout Scotland and received multiple subsequent productions. Highlights of her acting career include appearing as Granny in Men Should Weep at the Royal National Theatre, London, performing stand-up in two series of Channel 4’s Halfway to Paradise, and playing the Witch in pantomime with Stanley Baxter. Her publications include the novels The Witches of Pollok (Capercaillie Books) and The Miami Disclosure (SNB Publishing), six of her plays published by FairPlay Press, and numerous short stories.

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