Hampstead Theatre At Home: Drawing The Line

Hampstead Theatre At Home: Drawing The Line (2020)

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.

Director: Howard Davies

Casts

	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

Crew