We are delighted to share a new recording from The Script Department.
Pip Torrens reads A BALL IN THE BRAIN, an original screenplay by Stuart Urban
1884. Khartoum. General Gordon, a devout Christian and the ablest commander of his day, is besieged by the army of the Mahdi in their Islamist uprising. Gordon courageously faces his end in a war drama that links the past and the present, the political and the spiritual.
Based on Gordon’s remarkable diaries, Urban’s script dramatises his last stand as an ultimate test of nerve and faith, descending finally into delusion...
