Adapted and directed by Peter Brook from the Royal Shakespeare Company’s ‘production-in-progress US’, this long-unseen agitprop drama-doc – shot in London in 1967 and released only briefly in the UK and New York at the height of the Vietnam War – remains both thought-provoking and disturbing. A theatrical and cinematic social comment on US intervention in Vietnam, Brook’s film also reveals a 1960s London where art, theatre and political protest actively collude and where a young Glenda Jackson and RSC icons such as Peggy Ashcroft and Paul Scofield feature prominently on the front line. Multi-layered scenarios staged by Brook combine with newsreel footage, demonstrations, satirical songs and skits to illustrate the intensity of anti-war opinion within London’s artistic and intellectual community.
Mark Jones
as Mark
Robert Langdon Llyod
as Bob
Pauline Munro
as Pauline
Ursula Mohan
as Avant-garde Actress
Hugh Armstrong
as Avant-garde Actor
Peggy Ashcroft
as
Patrick Wymark
as
Paul Scofield
as
Barry Stanton
as Film Editor 1
Henry Woolf
as Film Editor 2
Glenda Jackson
as Glenda
John Hussey
as English Actor Playing American Embassy Official
