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by JB Priestley
A Salisbury Playhouse Production
28 February - 22 March 2008

 

Final week - closes this Saturday

Pick Of The Week - Guardian Guide, 1 March

 

 "There's two sorts o' people on this ship. There's the people who've had it all their own way up to now. Then there's people like us, who've never had a chance"

When an art-deco ocean liner catches fire in the Caribbean, passengers and crew are forced to abandon ship. However, faulty lifeboats and bad weather force twelve individuals to remain. As the ship lists and slowly sinks, tensions rise to the surface and the stricken passengers and crew are forced to pull together and pray to be rescued.

This new production is a rare opportunity to see this little-known thriller, by the author best known for An Inspector Calls, Dangerous Corner and I Have Been Here Before.
 
Artistic Director Philip Wilson returns to one of his favourite periods of drama, the 1930s, following his productions of Noel Coward’s The Astonished Heart and Still Life at Liverpool Playhouse (“Full of exquisite period details… Philip Wilson’s expertly acted revival” The Daily Telegraph)
  
“JB Priestley – novelist, playwright, journalist, essayist – was a man to be reckoned with: one of our most celebrated men of letters”
Daily Mail

 

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Creative Team

Director Philip Wilson
Designer Mike Britton
Lighting Ian Scott
Sound John Leonard
Composer Richard Hammarton



Cast

Walter Miles Jamie Bradley
Mrs Westmoreland Jan Carey
Professor Pawlett Christopher Ravenscroft
Nona Stockton Isla Carter
Frank Jefferson Max Dowler
Ripton John Elkington
Carlo Velburg Christopher Harper
Diana Lismore Juliet Howland
Ashford Myricks Robert Jezek
Valentine Avon Damien Matthews
Miriam Pick Emily Pithon
Patrick Boyne Nicolas Tennant