Performance

VenueJermyn Street Theatre
TownInner London
CountyGreater London
From4th October 2011
Opened6th October 2011
To29th October 2011
WhenMon-Sat 19:30. Sat Mats 15:30
PricesFrom £16.00. To £16.00.
What is currently on at Jermyn Street Theatre (V207)

The River Line

The River LineT462580196
The River Line has as its central theme the idea of responsibility, particularly the responsibility for action forced upon peace-loving men who find themselves living in an age of violence during the War. The name ?the River Line' was given to one of those networks of communication which enabled Allied airman to get home through Belgium, France and the Pyrenees. The organisers always feared that they might be receiving ?a false Englishman' - that is, a secret agent introduced by the enemy into the Line in order to betray it. The story is rooted in this fear. Of the group of officers, American and English, concealed in Marie Chassaigne s granary, one was killed with terrible suddenness. Who was he? Where did the responsibility lie? A young American, having played his part in the adventure, comes to England in 1947 to visit his surviving friends who shared it. As a double story of 1943 and 1947 unfolds, his discovery of the whole truth affects his relationships with two women and his understanding of himself. It seems that that the present is bound to the past in that kind of tragic entanglement which everywhere afflicts the modern conscience. The solution lies in pardon and release.
Author Charles Morgan


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Company

Producer Jermyn Street Theatre
Director Anthony Biggs
Design Rhiannon Newman Brown
Lighting David W. Kidd
Sound Phil Hewitt
Performer Charlie Bewley (Major John Lang - Heron)
Performer Lydia Rose Bewley (Valerie Barton)
Performer Alex Felton (Dick Frewer)
Performer Christopher Fulford (Commander Julian Wyburton)
Performer Dave Hill (Pierre Chassaigne)
Performer Eileen Page (Mrs Muriven)
Performer Edmund Kingsley (Philip Sturgess)
Performer Lyne Renee (Marie Chassaigne)
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