Hampstead Theatre At Home: Drawing The Line
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.
Release Date
April 13, 2020Runtime
135 minDirected by
Howard DaviesWritten by
Howard BrentonLanguage
EnglishBudget
$0Revenue
$0Status
ReleasedCast
David Annen
PETHICK LAWRENCE/SARGEANTPaul Bazely
JINNAHTom Beard
Cyril RadcliffeLucy Black
Edwina MountbattenSilas Carson
NEHRUAbigail Cruttenden
ANTONIA RADCLIFFENeil D'Souza
MR JUSTICE MEHER/CHAND MAHAJAN/VILLAGERTanveer Ghani
GANDHI/ELDER/TEJA SINGHAndrew Havill
MOUNTBATTENRez Kempton
CHAUDRI/AIDE TO NEHRU/INDIAN PHOTOGRAPHERNikesh Patel
RAO VD AYER/YOUNG MANBrendan Patricks
CHRISTOPHER BEAUMONTShalini Peiris
DALI WOMAN/TARAVATIPeter Singh
YOUNG MAN/AIDE TO JINNAH/LORD KRISHNA