A new play by Kenneth Hyde.
The action takes place in a remote part of Lincolnshire.
Second performance: Thursday at 7.30 p.m.
The war is long over, but the Millers' Lincolnshire farmhouse stands, literally and figuratively, in the shadow of the nearby R A.F. Station, now empty and derelict, where young Bill Miller served as a wartime bomber pilot; he has returned with permanent scars on his nerves and disposition, and at night, still, when aircraft throb on exercises over the Wash, he is given to sleep-walking among the ghosts in the Nissen hut which was his old Mess.
Another shadow looms over the autumnal scene with the arrival of a rough, taciturn stranger who might be on the run from London, where Doll - a sometime crony of Mavis, the Millers' household help-has been 'done in'.
The play is a suspenseful and sometimes ironic study in which the author points to the sharp distinction made by society between peacetime killing (singular) and wartime, killings (plural), and in which the line separating innocence and guilt is often clouded. (Kenneth A. Hurren)