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A Sleep of Prisoners

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Cast: Andrew Bolton, Tom Cornford, Duncan Law, James Rayment.

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"I didn't hurt you, did I, Pete?"
 
 
Privates Peter Able and David King

"Why don't You do some slaughtering sometimes? Why always Leave it to me? Got no blood you can heat Up or something?"
 
 
Clockwise from top: Adam, Abel and Cain

"All right.
We'll put it to the High and Mighty.
Play you dice to know who's favoured."
 
 
"You leave us now, leave us, you half-and-half:
I want to be free of you!"

"...come over
Here, the dusty fellow with the news"
 
 
"Is the fighting over? Unconditionally?
Is the young man Absalom safe?"
 

Corporal Joe Adams as Joab carries the dead Absalom.
 
"The boy's dead.
You might as well be told: I say
The boy's dead."
 

The Angel intervening in Abraham's sacrifice of Isaac:
"Hold your arm.
There are new instructions."
 
Corporal Joe Adams as Meshac:
"What way have I come down, to find
I live still, in this round of blaze?
Here on my knees. And a fire hotter
Than any fire has ever been
Plays over me"

Back to A Sleep of Prisoners main page - View photos of WWII prisoners - About Christopher Fry
Cast: Andrew Bolton, Tom Cornford, Duncan Law, James Rayment.