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Hampstead Theatre At Home: Drawing The Line

0.0 135 mins 2020
Director(s): Howard Davies

London, 1947. Summoned by the Prime Minister from the Court where he is presiding judge, Cyril Radcliffe is given an unlikely mission. He is to travel to India, a country he has never visited, and, with limited survey information, no expert support and no knowledge of cartography, he is to draw the border which will divide the Indian sub-continent into two new Sovereign Dominions. To make matters even more challenging, he has only six weeks to complete the task. Wholly unsuited to his role, Radcliffe is unprepared for the dangerous whirlpool of political intrigue and passion into which he is plunged – untold consequences may even result from the illicit liaison between the Leader of the Congress Party and the Viceroy’s wife… As he begins to break under the pressure he comes to realise that he holds in his hands the fate of millions of people.

Casts of Hampstead Theatre At Home: Drawing The Line

David Annen

as PETHICK LAWRENCE/SARGEANT

Paul Bazely

as JINNAH

Tom Beard

as Cyril Radcliffe

Lucy Black

as Edwina Mountbatten

Silas Carson

as NEHRU

Abigail Cruttenden

as ANTONIA RADCLIFFE

Neil D'Souza

as MR JUSTICE MEHER/CHAND MAHAJAN/VILLAGER

Tanveer Ghani

as GANDHI/ELDER/TEJA SINGH

Andrew Havill

as MOUNTBATTEN

Salma Hoque

as DALIT WOMAN/KALVATI

Rez Kempton

as CHAUDRI/AIDE TO NEHRU/INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHER

Nikesh Patel

as RAO VD AYER/YOUNG MAN

Simon Nagra

as LIAQUAT/VILLAGER/AIDE TO NEHRU/DIN MOHAMMED

Brendan Patricks

as CHRISTOPHER BEAUMONT

Shalini Peiris

as DALI WOMAN/TARAVATI

Peter Singh

as YOUNG MAN/AIDE TO JINNAH/LORD KRISHNA

John Mackay

as Clement Atlee

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