#a fair amount of nudity (unusual for 1971 BBC anyway); mostly it's Angela Scoular as the gf who's in a state of undress but for any um ahem
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Edward Woodward stars as The Man (named Frank in dialogue), a neurotic adulterer in midlife crisis, in Play for Today: Evelyn (BBC, 1971), Rhys Adrian's adaptation of his previous radio play
#fave spotting#edward woodward#callan#play for today#evelyn#bbc#1971#single play#classic tv#shot in the middle of the two year gap between Callan's third and fourth series (and around the same time as the short lived variety#show The Edward Woodward Hour)‚ this PfT allowed Eddy bb to stretch his lighter loafers a little and to play something slightly less serious#not that his character here isn't almost as tightly wound and as internally conflicted as David Callan; it's just that while Callan is#wrestling with the morality of state sanctioned murder and extra judicial execution in the name of 'peace' or security‚ Frank here feels#inadequate because his mistress has another boyfriend (who has another mistress). it's a slightly pathetic part‚ a middle aged nobody who#thinks he's embarked on his One Great Love Affair outside his marriage only to find out that his (younger ofc) girlfriend belongs to a#social group in which seemingly everyone is sleeping with everyone else‚ everyone is beautiful and young‚ and crucially everyone is younger#more beautiful and having more sex than he is. cue some classic Woodward stammers and difficulties and needlings and general#unhappiness; he does it all beautifully of course. it's an occasionally quite funny play tho also occasionally not; the very ending has a#whisp of bleak ennui tho it's difficult to muster sympathy for Woodward's age obsessed loser. the play is also fairly unusual for featuring#a fair amount of nudity (unusual for 1971 BBC anyway); mostly it's Angela Scoular as the gf who's in a state of undress but for any um ahem#Eddy freaks (affectionate)‚ there may be a few glimpses of some side butt to be found here. i really couldn't say. i averted my eyes out of#respect for his craft as an actor (👀)#oh! and in one of the later scenes where he's properly dressed‚ I'm almost certain he's wearing one of his Callan suits (complete with#black leather gloves)
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