Afternoon Play - Lennon: A Week in the Life

By Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais, adapted by Lizzie Nunnery December 1980. When just forty people turn up to John Lennon's memorial service in Liverpool, his old friend and promoter Sam Leach is forced to act. Cast Sam Leach ..... Tony Maudsley Joan Leach ..... Joanna Monro Debbie Leach ..... Lauren O'Neil Janine Hobday ..... Laura dos Santos Morris Tate ..... Bruce Alexander Clive Inch ..... Craige Els Kenny Stratton ..... John Shortell Carol Stratton ..... Alison Pettitt Billy Butler ..... Billy Butler Traynor ..... John Biggins Jonesy ..... David Seddon Homeless man ..... Rufus Wright Wooldridge ..... Nigel Hastings Directed by Jessica Dromgoole Tony Maudsley stars in Dick Clement and Ian la Frenais' tribute to a man, a town, a moment. John Lennon, Liverpool, December 1980. The play draws together fragments of reportage from the time, interviews with Lennon himself, the true story of Sam Leach, the Beatles' first promoter, some of the greatest music of the twentieth century, with the fictional stories of two lost young people whose lives were transformed by the concert, and Liverpool's own Billy Butler, recreating his earlier self, to create a joyous celebration of life, music and community. Part of the Eighties Season, with Greed All About It by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman and The End of the World by Daniel Brocklehurst.