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The Dark River by RODNEY ACKLAND
During the long hot summer of 1937, guests assemble at a house on the Thames. It should be idyllic. But the distant echoes of the Spanish Civil War and the threat of a greater conflict are reflected in the private agonies of the household.
The critic Hilary Spurling has described this play, written in 1942, as 'perhaps the one indisputably great play of the past half century in English'.
Directed by MATTHEW WALTERS Stereo

Contributors

Unknown:
Rodney Ackland
Directed By:
Matthew Walters
Catherine Lisle:
Jane Asher
Alan Crocker:
Dermot Crowley
Mrs Merriman:
Isabel Dean
Gwendoline Mulville:
Julia Goodmak
Stanley Maltby:
Neale Goodrum
Mervyn:
Danny Kodicek
Mr Veness:
Rodney Ackland
Edmund Reade:
Robert Beatty

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