African Queen by CS Forester

CS Forester - The African Queen
Drama

Set in 1915, Rose Sayer’s work as a missionary comes to an abrupt end when the village she and her brother, Reverend Samuel Sayer, live in is invaded by the German army. Samuel dies of fever and Rose blames the ungodly Germans for having ground him down and frightened off the entire village.

Samantha Bond and Toby Jones star in a fresh dramatisation of CS Forester’s classic.

Patriotically, but naively, Rose conceives of blowing up a German warship thus helping the war effort. She convinces cowardly Cockney Charlie Allnut to lend his rickety steam-powered boat, The African Queen, for the cause. He has offered to give Rose a lift in his boat to get away from the village and the Germans, so reluctantly goes along with her plan. If they manage to survive German attacks, rapids, malaria and mechanical mishaps will they be able to survive each other?

CS Forester's novel, The African Queen, was of course the basis for the highly popular Hollywood movie of the same name. Paul Mendelson's dramatisation goes back to the novel re-instating Forester's original ending and giving Charlie his Cockney identity back!

Credits
Role Contributor
Rose Samantha Bond
Charlie Toby Jones
Samuel Sayer Stephen Critchlow
German Sailor Mark Edel-Hunt
German Sea Captain David Acton
Director David Neville
Producer David Neville
Author CS Forester
Adaptor Paul Mendelson



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