BBC Four to air comedy 'western' Hung Out To Dry
- Hung Out To Dry airs BBC Four on Sunday at 8pm as part of Female Filmmakers Too
- It stars Phoebe Frances Brown and Tina Harris as neighbours fighting over getting their washing out
- The short is described as a "bizarre, western-style stand-off, race-off, dance-off"
An actor with incurable brain cancer is bringing a comedy "western" to BBC Four and iPlayer this Sunday night (6th March).
Phoebe Frances Brown's Hung Out To Dry features as part of Female Filmmakers Too, a showcase of shorts from emerging female directors and artists presented by cultural historian Janina Ramirez.
Frances Brown, who recently attracted plaudits for her autobiographical stage show The Glad Game, about her experience of living with cancer, writes and stars in Hung Out To Dry, playing Amy, an unemployed actor in a battle with her overworked nurse neighbour to see who can hang out their washing the fastest.
A comedy about "play, even if you're both adults now", Amy's mum is constantly having a go at her for being a waste of space, while Theresa, played by Tina Harris (Red Dwarf, Cradle To Grave), has her husband "actually cooking tonight!", but is being asked to go back to the hospital for yet another shift.
Both need to get the washing out rapidly, culminating in a "bizarre, western-style stand-off, race-off, dance-off" to hang it out fastest.
Jake Kelsall (Ackley Bridge) co-writes and co-directs and the executive producer is Grant Black. The commissioning editor for the BBC is Stephen James-Yeoman.
Frances Brown, whose acting credits include Small Island and If We Were Older at the National Theatre, is also part of the comedy troupe Major Labia, an associate company at Nottingham Playhouse who have recently received BFI short film funding.
She has adapted The Glad Game for the screen and is currently meeting producers about the project.
Female Filmmakers Too airs on BBC Four from 8pm to 9pm on Sunday 6th March.