The Stones of Venice (audio drama)
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| The Stones of Venice | |
| Series | Doctor Who |
| Release number | 18 |
| Featuring | Eighth Doctor Charley Pollard |
| Writer | Paul Magrs |
| Director | Gary Russell |
| Producer(s) | Gary Russell Jason Haigh-Ellery |
| Executive producer(s) | Jacqueline Rayner |
| Set between | Sword of Orion and Minuet in Hell |
| Length | 1 hour 51 mins |
| Release date | March 2001 |
The Stones of Venice is a Big Finish Productions audio drama based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. This audio drama was broadcast on BBC 7 in four weekly parts starting on 1 October 2005, and was repeated on the same channel beginning on 22 October 2006 and on 19 September 2007.
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[edit] Plot
The Eighth Doctor and Charley decide to have a little peace and quiet in Renaissance Venice — except that he gets the date wrong by about six hundred years and discovers a cursed city about to sink below the water... complete with a Duke who hasn't aged for a hundred years, amphibian gondoliers, a curator obsessed with his art collection and your typical mad cult leader. Charley isn't impressed...
[edit] Cast
- The Doctor — Paul McGann
- Charley Pollard — India Fisher
- Orsino, a Duke — Michael Sheard
- Churchwell, a curator — Nick Scovell
- Ms Lavish, an elderly lady — Elaine Ives-Cameron
- Pietro, a gondolier — Barnaby Edwards
- Vincenzo, a High Priest — Mark Gatiss
[edit] Notes
- The names of some of this play's characters are derived from romantic works of fiction. "Duke Orsino" is from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, and Mrs. Lavish is from A Room with a View by E. M. Forster.
- The play's name is a reference to The Stones of Venice, a collection of essays by John Ruskin from the 1850s.
- Although it was the third to be released, this was the first Eighth Doctor audio drama to be recorded and therefore marked Paul McGann's return to the role for the first time since the 1996 Doctor Who TV movie and India Fisher's first performance as Charley Pollard.
- This story was Michael Sheard's last role in Doctor Who before his death in 2005.
[edit] Working Titles
- My Last Duchess
[edit] External links
- Big Finish Productions - The Stones of Venice
- The Stones of Venice at the Doctor Who Reference Guide
[edit] Reviews
- The Stones of Venice reviews at Outpost Gallifrey
- The Stones of Venice reviews at The Doctor Who Ratings Guide
