Another Country By Julian Mitchell

A classic play about two boys at a public school in the 1930s who find themselves caught up in a battle against the school's oppressive elite.

Judd:………..Tom Hiddleston
Bennett:………..Ben Riqhton
Menzies:………William Ellis
Fowler:……….Paul Richard Bigqin
Devenish:………..Steven Webb
Delahay:……….Joseph Kloska
Barclay:………..Dan Starkey
Wharton:………..Josh Freeborn
Vaughan:……….Adam Godley

Producer/Director Marc Beeby

The Saturday Play: Betrayal - Another Country
Sat 23rd Sep 2006, 14:32 on BBC Radio 4 FM

It premiered on 5 November 1981 at the Greenwich Theatre, London:

World premiere of an absorbing new play by Julian Mitchell. Set in a great English public school in the 1930s, it explores with penetrating insight and humour an apparently exclusive society which comes to realize that it cannot ignore the world outside. The seeds of treachery and betrayal come under the microscope....

The play won the Society of West End Theatre Awards Play of the Year title for 1982. The play takes its title from a lyric in the British patriotic hymn "I Vow to Thee, My Country."

Another Country is loosely based on the life of the spy Guy Burgess, Guy Bennett in the play, and examines the effect his homosexuality and exposure to Marxism has on his life, and the hypocrisy and snobbery of the English public schools.

The setting is a 1930s Eton-esque public school, where Guy Bennett and Tommy Judd are friends because they are both outsiders in their own ways. Bennett is openly gay, while Judd is a Marxist.

One night a house man walks in on Martineau and a boy from another house together in the dark room. Martineau commits suicide because of the shame of having been found in a homosexual embrace, and chaos erupts as teachers and the senior students try their hardest to keep the scandal away from parents and the rest of the outside world. However, the gay scandal gives the army-obsessed house captain Fowler, who dislikes both Bennett and Judd, a welcome reason to scheme against them.

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