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The Long Sunset by R. C. SHERRIFF with Stephen Murray
Pauline Letts and Julian Glover The Roman Empire is crumbling; the Occupation of Britain is at an end; the Legions are leaving; the surviving Romans are alone and unprotected. The play follows the fate of one such Roman family from their attempts to fight off the in-' vading Saxons to their final conversion to Christianity.
R. C. Sherriff , author of Journey's End, died on 13 November 1975.
Lugar, a servant EDWARD KELSEY Producer MARTIN JENKINS

Contributors

Unknown:
R. C. Sherriff
Unknown:
Stephen Murray
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Pauline Letts
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Julian Glover
Unknown:
R. C. Sherriff
Unknown:
Edward Kelsey
Producer:
Martin Jenkins
Marcus, a Roman Tribune:
John Rye
Julian, a Roman landowner:
Stephen Murray
Serena, his wife:
Pauline Letts
Paula, their daughter:
Jane Knowles
Otho, their son:
David Spenser
Lucian:
Lockwood West
POrtiUS:
John Gabriel
Arthur:
Julian Glover
Gawaine, his nephew:
David Valla

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