| Mark
Heap, who plays the wonderfully insane Dr Alan Statham
in Green Wing, animates my character Tom Quincey in
this attempt at comedy and slapstick, loosely (very
loosely...) based on events in the life of the 19th-century
opium-eater and essayist, Thomas De Quincey. Fighting
cannabis psychosis, Tom, a schoolteacher, retreats
to the Lake District to become a writer. After
several strange encounters with Mr Wilson of Elleray
(played by the perennially excellent Paul Copley),
he conceives a ridiculous idea for a self-help manual. |
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