Face Value - Her New Life

Written by Fiona Samuel, Face Value was a trilogy of monologues by three women with different stories to tell but who all share a quest for inner happiness. Ginette McDonald plays Steph, the pampered wife of a wealthy advertising executive in Her New Life. The action centres on Steph’s preparations for a friend’s daughter’s wedding while her husband is away on a business trip. The script cleverly subverts viewer expectations; and McDonald's performance delivers a fair dose of pathos from it. Her New Life was a finalist at the Banff and New York TV Festivals.

Monologues they may technically be, but in Samuel's hands they come alive as fully-fledged plays, each as refractive and diverse as a drama with several characters.

– Denis Welch on Face Value, The Listener, 6 May 1995, page 28

Key Cast & Crew

Fiona Samuel

Writer

Richard Bluck

Cinematographer

Ginette McDonald

Producer, As: Steph

Caterina De Nave

Executive Producer

Peter Sharp

Director

Owen Ferrier-Kerr

Editor