The Facing Chair
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One off play for Rediffusion's Play of the Week, written by by Edmund Ward.
For Madame Romanoff, the fortune teller, the money's good, the living's comfortable. But when she smells death it frightens her.
Screened 1 Oct 1963.
Edmund Ward stated "This is not so much a play about fortune telling, but about the nature of hope...the fact that everyone needs reassurance at some time. This is a portrait of a fortune teller who needs help and reassurance. " Madame Romanoff told TV Times that although she'd had her fortune told a couple of times and found it fascinating, she wasn't really sure about fortune telling. "I do not regard the woman I play as phoney." She said. "She is a wonderful judge of character and weighs up people very quickly. A lot of it, of course, is intuition and a little applied psychology." Ward, writing his third play for television, had already had his fortune told when doing research for it. "The lady told me I had something to do with actors and was, perhaps, a writer."