by Max Marquis
Based on "L'Affaire Calas" by Stellio Lorenzi, Andre Castelot, Alain Decaux
Starring Alan Badel, Leonard Rossiter, Rosalie Crutchley, John Paul
with Alex Scott, Cyril Shaps, Tom Criddle, Richard Caldicot, Hamilton Dyce

Tonight's play is a savage but true account of one man's struggle to right a terrible wrong. In eighteenth-century Toulouse, a Protestant, Jean Calas, was unjustly accused of murdering his son, condemned and atrociously tortured to death. Voltaire was so shocked by this dreadful story that for three bitter years, under constant threat to his own life, he unceasingly fought against a stifling conspiracy of silence.

(Colour)