Queen of Hearts (TV play)
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Queen of Hearts was a play, directed by Tim King [1], that was shown on BBC2 television on 28 August 1985 [2].
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Queen of Hearts starred Shakespearean actress Lorna Heilbron as Ann Drury [3], a bored, frustrated, but attractive middle-class housewife living in an area where prostitution had begun to arouse comment. Two factors encouraged Mrs Drury briefly to try out being a prostitute herself: her husband’s admission that he himself had once consorted with a call girl and her trying on some of her teenage daughter’s black lingerie while she was alone in the house. Her experience with a client gave her a fresh sense of her sexuality, though her husband’s rather underwhelmed response when she sought to entice him with lace underwear and stockings had the effect of returning her to her previous rather staid existence.
The content of Queen of Hearts provoked a certain amount of comment at the time [4], but the play has not been repeated on television, nor released on video.
