| 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.
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| 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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