Cancelled - The Silence of the Sea

by Paul Vercors, adapted by Peter Cheeseman

Thursday 7 – Sunday 10 May
(inc Saturday matinee, matinee performance only on Sunday)

Occupied France 1940. A middle aged man and his niece find themselves forced to take in a German officer. Helpless but angry they decide to demonstrate their resistance by refusing to talk to him. They are " the silence". The scene is set for some painful hostility, but things don't turn out quite as they expect.

 

Cast

• Uncle – Gareth Saunders
• Niece – Esther Arzola
• Officer – Ruaridh Aldington

Directed by Dorothy Gibert