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This story parallels Romeo
and Juliet in that there are two families destined to be kept apart
by circumstances. In this case religious and social. The young couple
are murdered by a local villain. Nothing is excluded from the
original story but an additional twist was written into the script to
add to the intrigue.
Gerald Griffin was born in
Limerick in 1802 and died in 1840. "The Hand and The Word"
was written fourteen years before "Murders in the Rue
Morgue" by Edgar Allen Poe who was deemed to be the father of
the detective story.
The film was funded by
Baltic and was the brainchild of Simon Grennan and Chris Sperandio,
who were part of the direction team together with one of our own
members Steve Davies. (Busy man Steve as he is also in the comedy!)
The script was written by
members Andrew and Lorraine Heard and Julian and Marie Brown, with
minor modifications from a steering committee who guided the process
from the point of committing to the project to the start of filming.
With the number of members
required Andrew Heared played the part of Black Ned the villain. We
do not normally require a voice coach but in this case Ray Callaghan
was invaluable. Julian Brown found outside locations such as Robin
Hoods Bay. Bill Clark and Terry Collier who were also in the cast
were involved in set building.
When filming at the
theatre was completed Simon Grennan and Chris Sperandio went away and
began the work of animating, adding music and sound track, and
generally doing all the hard work putting the finishing touches to a
most interesting and exciting film.
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