Friedrich Dürrenmatt:
The Conformer
BBC Radio 3
Broadcast: Monday 7th July 1975
In a bleak future dominated by criminal gangs, a scientist known only as Doc becomes the body disposal specialist for the nefarious Boss in
a cellar five floors below ground.
Translated by James Kirkup from Friedrich Dürrenmatt's German play, "Der Mitmacher. Ein Komplex" ("The Collaborator: A Complex"),
written in 1972 and first performed on Thursday 8th March 1973, in Zurich's Schauspielhaus (main theatre).
Adapted for radio by James Kirkup and Hans Hausmann
With Alan Dobie [Doc], Patrick Magee [Cop], Christopher Muncke [Bill], Rosalind Ayres [Ann], Christopher Benjamin [Boss], John Hug
[Jim], Peter Holt [Sam], and Gerald Cross [Jack].
Produced by Jane Morgan for BBC World Theatre
80 min.
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