| Director |
Michael Attenborough
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| Author |
Ted
Taly |
| Cast |
Robert Powell, Michael Curver, Stephanie
Beacham |
| Plot |
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Drawn from the journals and letters found
on the frozen body of Captain Scott (Robert Powell), the action of the
play blends scenes of the explorer and his men at various stages of
their ordeal, with flashbacks of Scott and his young wife and with
fateful glimpses of his Norwegian rival, Roald Amundsen, whose party
beat him to the South Pole.
Refusing the use of sled dogs as unsporting, Scott and his team
struggle to drag their heavy gear across a frozen wasteland, only to
find that Amundsen has preceded them to their goal.
The play is also a study of British pride and upper-class
resolveScott's aristocratic sense of destiny and command and his young
bride's ability to understand her husband's compulsive drive while
failing to accept his motivations. But it is in the tragic trip back,
as the members of the expedition die one by one, that the play reaches
its dramatic apogee, capturing with chilling intensity the awesome
bravery of men who must accept the bitter knowledge that suffering and
death will be the only reward for their heroism. |
| Comments |
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Ted Tilly won an Oscar
for his adaptation of The Silence OF The Lambs for the cinema.
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