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Condemned as a 'libel on the British people' when it was first produced in 1951,
Absolute Hell is set in a decaying West End drinking club at the end of the Second World War.
Cast : 10M, 10F
Oberon Books | 978-1-87025-919-4 | Sales rights: Australia/NZ | PB
Author
RODNEY ACKLAND’s first play
Improper People was
produced at the Arts Theatre Club, London in 1929. But it was not until 1932
that Ackland’s work finally reached the West End, when his fourth play
Strange
Orchestra transferred from the Embassy, Swiss Cottage to the St. Martin’s, St. Martin’s
Lane, which caused James Agate in the Sunday Times to suggest that the ordinary
stuff of the West End Theatre bore as much resemblance to
Strange Orchestra ‘as
unbleached calico to tattered silk’.
The Dark River, produced at the Whitehall
Theatre, and revived at the Orange Tree in 1985, was acclaimed by Hilary
Spurling in The Spectator as ‘perhaps the one indisputably great play of the
past half-century in English.’ |
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