The Hole in the Top of the World, Fay Weldon
The Hole in the Top of the World, Fay Weldon
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The Hole in the Top of the World

Author: Fay Weldon

Narrator: Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek, Valerie Landsburg

Unabridged: 1 hr 15 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/15/2012

Synopsis

Walter Matthau stars in the story of a climate scientist trying to balance romance and research. The piece is both serious and surreal as Matthau removes the “fourth wall” while addressing the show’s recording engineer.

An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Barbara Bain, Zeljko Ivanek and Valerie Landsburg.

Directed by Shaun McLoughlin. Recorded before a live audience in Santa Monica, CA in June, 1992.

About Fay Weldon

FAY WELDON is an English novelist, playwright, and screenwriter who, at the age of sixteen, lived in a grand London townhouse as the daughter of the housekeeper. In addition to winning a Writers' Guild Award for the pilot of the original Upstairs Downstairs, she is a Commander of the British Empire whose books include Praxis, shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction; The Heart of the Country, winner of the Los Angeles Times Fiction Prize; Worst Fears, shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award; and Wicked Women, which won the PEN/Macmillan Silver Pen Award. She lives in England.

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Goodreads review by Ray

"The Hole in the Top of the World" is a 1987 play written by Fay Weldon. The audiobook is a recording of the play as performed at the KCRW Studios in Santa Monica, CA in the summer of 1992. Starring actor Walter Matthau, the play is the story of an older climate scientist and his younger female assis......more

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