The River Line

Archive Listings for The River Line

T462580196 (JERMYN11) Producer Jermyn Street Theatre. Director Anthony Biggs. Design Rhiannon Newman Brown. Lighting David W. Kidd. Sound Phil Hewitt. Performer Charlie Bewley (Major John Lang - Heron). Performer Lydia Rose Bewley (Valerie Barton). Performer Alex Felton (Dick Frewer). Performer Christopher Fulford (Commander Julian Wyburton). Performer Dave Hill (Pierre Chassaigne). Performer Eileen Page (Mrs Muriven). Performer Edmund Kingsley (Philip Sturgess). Performer Lyne Renee (Marie Chassaigne).

4 Oct 11 to 29 Oct 11

Jermyn Street Theatre, Inner London :: V207 listing details L280781382

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Play :: The River Line has as its central theme the idea of responsibility, particularly the responsibility for action forced upon peace-loving men who find themselves living in an age of violence during the War. The name ?the River Line' was given to one of those networks of communication which enabled Allied airman to get home through Belgium, France and the Pyrenees. The organisers always feared that they might be receiving ?a false Englishman' - that is, a secret agent introduced by the enemy into the Line in order to betray it. The story is rooted in this fear. Of the group of officers, American and English, concealed in Marie Chassaigne s granary, one was killed with terrible suddenness. Who was he? Where did the responsibility lie? A young American, having played his part in the adventure, comes to England in 1947 to visit his surviving friends who shared it. As a double story of 1943 and 1947 unfolds, his discovery of the whole truth affects his relationships with two women and his understanding of himself. It seems that that the present is bound to the past in that kind of tragic entanglement which everywhere afflicts the modern conscience. The solution lies in pardon and release.

Author

Charles Morgan