
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
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 |















