BBC/ABC - Louis Nowra's ' Summer Of The Aliens'
Music by Sarah de Jong
Produced by Richard Buckham
Directed by Jane Ulman
BBC/ABC [Australian Broadcasting Corporation] Joint Production
Winner of the 1990 Prix Italia award
Broadcast October 30, 1989 in BBC R4's 'Monday Play' slot
Coded from tape at 128/44.1

1962. Melbourne.

The airwaves are choked with the Cuban missile crisis
and red peril mania. But even the threat of nuclear
Armageddon can't distract schoolboy Louis from
his conviction that aliens are invading the earth.

A lovely play. It should be in every rep company's canon.

Cast
Louis - Louis Nowra
Young Louis - Ben Pauley
Emma, Lewis' Sister - Kathryn Dufty
Mum - Linda Cropper
Grandma - Dinah Shearing
Dad - Nicholas Eadie
Dulcie - Belinda Chikosh
Brian - Dylan Howarth
Mr Pisano the postman - George Spartels
Mrs Pisano - Beth Child
Teacher - Peter Carroll

Other parts
Kirsten Mcleod
Emily Nichol
Paul Hunt
Annie Byron
Alan Tobin
Andrew Tighe
Mary Haire
Vanessa Pohl
Anouska Ward
Amanda Gallic
Bill Conn
Patrick Phillips
Carrie Zivetz
Swabomir Wabik
John O'May
Kevin Golsby
Tyler Coppin
Harold Birchill
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