Details

Jack has a dark secret and only a few months to live. When his family gather for his daughter Anna's wedding, Jack, a passionate map collector, is forced to confront the map of his own life and finds its horizons to be limited. Research into his ancestry proves him to be related to an eighteenth-century cartographer and plantation owner, but Anna, engaged to a black lawyer, is more interested to discover that they may be descended from a slave... This intimate play explores the notion of Englishness, and follows the moving journey of a man coming to terms with the parameters of his life. Ian Holm has withdrawn from the production due to ill health.

Cast/Performers

James Hayes, Alun Armstrong, Alibe Parsons, Patrick Robinson, Tim McInnerny, Lia Williams, Chody Choi, Juliet Codlin, Gerrard Martin, Benny Maslov, Lorena Randi, James Hayes, Juliet Codlin

Creatives/Company

Author: Shelagh Stephenson
Producer: Royal National Theatre
Director: Bill Alexander
Design: Ruari Murchison
Lighting: Paul Pyant
Choreographer: Arthur Pita
Music: Jonathan Goldstein
Sound: David Tinson