Hh Munro - Beasts On The Lawn - Saki [15 Minute Drama]

Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)

Adapted by Sean Grundy

Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.

Episode One - Tobermory

Barrister couple Lady Jane and Jean-Michel Blemley hold a dinner party for some of their rich clients. One of their guests, eccentric scientist Cornelius Appin, claims that he has been experimenting with animal behaviour techniques and can teach them to communicate. When he demonstrates on the Blemley's cat, Tobermory, the couple find they have a problem on their hands and seek assistance from security guard Clovis.

Clovis.............................Pippa Haywood

Tobermory......................Nick Mohammed

Cornelius Appin....................Alan Coveney

Lady Jane Blemley....................Dolly Wells

Jean-Michel Blemley...................Ed Weeks

Agnes Resker.............Jennifer Lee Jellicorse

Odo Finsberry.......................David Collins

Bertie Van Than....................Paul Dodgson

Director: Alison Crawford.

A barrister couple seek help when a dinner party demonstration goes horribly wrong.

Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)

Adapted by Sean Grundy

Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.

Episode Two: The Interlopers

Divorced couple Georgina Znaeym and Ulrich Gradwitz hate each other. Both professors of Socio geoeconomics at rival universities, they are both in line for the prestigious Eisenberg Award. They are high-minded and serious but in their spare time they are devotees of the on-line video game 'Carpathian Empire' where they fight most of their battles. When Ulrich delivers a particularly nasty blow to Georgina she reacts accordingly and their fighting spills out into the real world.

Clovis.............................Pippa Haywood

Georgina Znaeym.................Barbara Flynn

Ulrich Gradwitz....................John Sessions

Jeff the Man...................Malcolm Hamilton

Director - Alison Crawford.

The fighting of rival academics reaches new heights when they compete for an award.

Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)

Adapted by Sean Grundy

Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.

Episode Three: Sredni Vashtar

When Conrad de Ropp Snr is given 'gardening leave' from his bank, his time at home coincides with his adopted ten year old son's (Conrad Jnr) school holiday. It's a sobering time, mainly because Conrad Snr had almost forgotten the boy existed. Snr thinks Jnr spends far too much time on his own in the garden. He's occupying himself in the shed, and Snr wonders if the boy has found himself an unhealthy habit. But it's not sexual, it's religious. Jnr has got himself an idol. To anyone else it's just a pet ferret, but to little Conrad it's Sredni Vashtar, a vengeful, merciless god. He loves it. He worships it in secret, and he prays each day it will rid him of Conrad Snr.

Clovis.............................Pippa Haywood

De Ropp........................Rupert Vansittart

Conrad....................................Olly Bell

Jeff the Man..................Malcolm Hamilton

Inge...................................Amy Clifton

Director: Alison Crawford.

Conrad is having an unhappy time of it, but believes his pet ferret will avenge his woes.

Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)

Adapted by Sean Grundy

Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.

Episode Four: Gabriel Ernest

Unpleasant celebrity chef Van Cheele has made quite a name for himself with his particular brand of nasty cooking. One day he finds a filthy naked teenager sunbathing in his large garden on the Munro Estate. The boy claims to enjoy hunting animals and also occasionally humans on the estate. Van Cheele believes that this is a prank by a fellow celebrity chef, but soon discovers that he's truly met his match.

Clovis.............................Pippa Haywood

Gabriel Ernest.......................Carl Prekopp

Van Cheele..............................Ed Weeks

Ewa Ptorovisch......................Dolly Wells

Jeff the Man..................Malcolm Hamilton

Director: Alison Crawford.

Vile celebrity chef Van Cheele meets his match with a teenage intruder in his garden.

Original stories by Saki (H.H Munro)

Adapted by Sean Grundy

Beasts on the Lawn is a collection of Edwardian short stories by Saki (H.H Munro) recycled and restaged in a modern day gated community for the far too wealthy for their own good. The tales are woven together by the character of Clovis, a security guard. She recalls the events of strange days and long nights.

Episode Five: Mrs Packletide's Tiger

Mrs Packletide, ghastly wealthy inheritor of the Gippe perfume empire, needs to shoot a tiger in order to silence her long-time rival Loona Bimberton. She wants it to take place on Munro Estate. Clovis is asked to offer her services, but it doesn't quite go to plan.

Clovis...........Pippa Haywood

Mrs Packletide........Marcia Warren

Louisa Mebbin....Jennifer Lee Jellicorse

Director: Alison Crawford.

The ghastly wealthy inheritor of the Gippe perfume empire needs to shoot a tiger.