Queen of Hearts (TV play)
- Queen of Hearts (TV play)
"Queen of Hearts" was a play, directed by Tim King [ [http://www.londonshakespeare.org.uk/prisondiaries/lorna.htm Lorna ] ] , that was shown on BBC2 television on 28 August 1985 ["Radio Times", 24-30 August 1985] .
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"Queen of Hearts" starred Shakespearean actress Lorna Heilbron as Ann Drury [ [http://www.londonshakespeare.org.uk/prisondiaries/lorna.htm Lorna ] ] , a bored, frustrated, but attractive middle-class housewife living in an area where prostitution had begun to arouse comment. Two factors encouraged Mrs Drury briefly to try out being a prostitute herself: her husband’s admission that he himself had once consorted with a call girl and her trying on some of her teenage daughter’s black lingerie while she was alone in the house. Her experience with a client gave her a fresh sense of her sexuality, though her husband’s rather underwhelmed response when she sought to entice him with lace underwear and stockings had the effect of returning her to her previous rather staid existence.
The content of "Queen of Hearts" provoked a certain amount of comment at the time [ [http://www.britmovie.co.uk/forums/can-you-name-film/7819-tv-play-where-housewife-becomes-prostitute.html TV play where a housewife becomes a prostitute - Britmovie - British Film Forum ] ] , but the play has not been repeated on television, nor released on video.
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