Ellis Dale

The story of THE WALL is told simply with the music of Pink Floyd, images and natural effects. There is no conventional dialogue to progress the narrative. Our story is about Pink, a Rock and Roll performer, who sits locked in a hotel room, somewhere in Los Angeles. Too many shows, too much dope, too much applause: a burned out case. On the TV, an all too familiar war film flickers on the screen. We shuffle time and place, reality and nightmare as we venture into Pink’s painful memories, each one a “brick” in the wall he has gradually built around his feelings. Slowly he withdraws from the real world and slips further into his nightmare as he imagines himself as an unfeeling demagogue, for whom all that is left is the demonstration of power over his unthinking audience, the culmination of the odious excess of his own world and the world around him. His internal self trail follows, as the witnesses of his past life, the very people who have contributed to the building of the wall, come forward and testify against him.

London solicitor Bill Maitland (Nicol Williamson, who received a BAFTA nod for his compelling performance) treats his clients terribly and is hated by his colleagues. He's unfaithful to his wife (Eleanor Fazan) and cruel to children. Based on a play by John Osborne, this intriguing character study manages to turn the misanthropic Maitland into an antihero the audience roots for, revealing a glimmer of humanity underneath his unpleasant actions.