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Alan Howard |
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Caroline Faber |
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Trevor Fox |
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Laura Norton |
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David Rintoul |
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Deka Walmsley |
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Donald McBride |
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Maggie Norris |
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Joe Caffrey |
Director: Max Roberts
Designer: Imogen
Cloet
Lighting: Malcolm Rippeth
Sound: Martin Hodgson
Composer/Musical
Director: Keith Morris
Fight director: Rennie Krupinski
Runs 2hr 45min One interval
The play opens in 1987, with the once famous right-wing poet Richard Jameson living in a remote house, inherited from his late wife's family, on the Northumbria coast. A visit by Rebecca Stone, an academic with an interest in both his past and his poetry, prompts Jameson to revisit the terrible events which continue to haunt him over forty years on. Scenes slip from present to past and back again, as the extent of Jameson's involvement with Henry Exton's Fascist party during the 20s and 30s is revealed.
In 1926 the young Jameson meets Jane (Exton's socialist daughter), whom he falls in love with and marries. This event is the catalyst for the poet's employment with Exton and his subsequent (and fateful) meeting with Exton's henchman, the sinister figure of Francis Finnegan. The idealist Jameson soon becomes embroiled in a deadly political game.
In the present, Jameson is cared for by Steve - a member of the latter-day equivalent of Exton's party, the League -someone else with a vested interest in Jameson's memoirs…
Past and present events collide as the shocking revelations of Jameson's past are mirrored in a startling present-day climax.