Paper Roses

Facing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.

• Barry DavisDirector
• Dennis PotterWriter

• Bill MaynardClarence Hubbard
• Donald GeeJohn Chart
• Aimée DelamainMrs Hubbard
• John CarsonJoe
• Dudley JonesThe Critic
• Desmond PerryHarold Bladdy
• Joe GladwinMessenger