Commissioned by Net Curtains Theatre Company, part of a project exploring natural disaster and based around the floods along the East Coast of England in the early 1950s. Performed at the Arcola Theatre in 2006 directed by Toria Banks.
Three miles above an area of tidal land devastated by the floods, there is a single house on the promontory. Six lives converge. Recollections flow into conversations. From the individual acts of kindness, moments of brutality emerge. Who are the real heroes?
Running time 25 minutes.
Read an extract from House on the Promontory.
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Bertold Brecht (1898-1956)
"As for the world portrayed there, the world from which slices are cut in order to produce these moods and movements of the emotions, its appearance is such, produced from such slight and wretched stuff as a few pieces of cardboard, a little miming, a bit of text, that one has to admire the theatre folk who, with so feeble a reflection of the real world, can move the feelings of their audience so much more strongly than does the world itself."