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Tadzio Speaks . . . (Death on the Lido: full performance)

(Now titled Death on the Lido) A 14-year-old boy is troubled - or is he fascinated? - by an old man who never stops watching him. In Thomas Mann's 1912 novella Death in Venice (filmed in 1971 by Luchino Visconti) the ageing Gustav von Aschenbach becomes obsessed with the beauty of young Tadzio. Although the two never speak, a silent relationship grows between them, a relationship which persists as the old man's health fails and the city is beset by cholera. Decades later Tadzio remembers that fateful summer. What went through the boy's mind when he realised what was happening? What impact did it have on his adult life? Finally, the silent youth speaks. Originally the title story in Martin Foreman's collection A Sense of Loss, it became a one-man play as Tadzio Speaks . . . with Christopher Peacock bringing to life one of fiction's most memorable and least understood characters in London and Edinburgh. This performance was filmed in the Lord Stanley in 2013. An audio version, recorded in 2020 with John Vernon as Tadzio, is also available on youtube. Buy the script of the audio and stage version and the short story it was derived from on Amazon or post-free (UK) on arberybooks.co.uk or ebay. [Script republished on 1 November 2023.] Enjoy this play? See also Martin Foreman's take on the classic comedy Volpone, the life of the libertine Casanova and the eccentric writer Frederick Rolfe on this youtube channel. Martin Foreman's work appears in several Arbery podcasts on Podbean and elsewhere. martinforeman.com Image: Christopher Peacock as young and old Tadzio