A Soviet play by Afinogenev, in the English version by Hubert Griffith. Produced by Barbara Burnham
' We all have only one Distant Point, a world in which all men shall live their lives in freedom and happiness..... We all think of that, live for that ... to the very last second of our last hour.'
Scene : A lonely wayside railway station on the Trans-Siberian Railway, about 7,000 kilometres from Moscow and 2,000 from Vladivostock, during twenty-four hours in August in the nineteen-thirties.
This is the opening play in ' Life and the Theatre ', the joint series of Sunday-evening plays and friday talks discussed in an article by Geoffrey Grigson in our last issue. The talks began last Friday with Michael Redgrave speaking on ' Theatre or Cinema ? ', and are continued this Friday with a talk by Michael Macowan , a young stage producer now in the Forces, who will discuss Message and Propaganda ' in drama.