by Harley Granville Barker

directed by Samuel West

design by Peter McKintosh

one interval

Walter Kent:               Max Bennett
Countess Mortimer:         Helen Lindsey
Lady Julia Farrant:        Jessica Turner
Frances Trebell:           Phoebe Nicholls
Lucy Davenport:            Jeany Spark
Amy O'Connell:             Nancy Carroll
George Farrant:            Michael Thomas
Russell Blackborough       Richard Cordery
Butler:                    Giles Taylor
Henry Trebell:             Will Keen
Gilbert Wedgecroft:        Bruce Alexander
Lord Charles Cantilupe:    Peter Eyre
Cyril Horsham:             Hugh Ross
Vivian Saumarez:           Giles Taylor
Justin O'Connell:          Patrick Drury
Bertha:                    Helen Lindsay

A successful politician gets his lover pregnant and when his lover dies due to a secret abortion when he wasn't willing
to accept his child his political friends drop him in the light of looming scandal.

A very well tuned play about scandal, politics, censorship and human opportunism.