This brilliant adaptation of L.P Hartley's 1953 novel was the last of three impressive collaborations between writer Harold Pinter and director Joseph Losey. It tells the story of Leo (Dominic Guard), a 13 year old boy visiting a friend's grand home in rural Norfolk at the turn of the century. Here he is befriended by his friend's older sister Marion (Julie Christie), engaged to a viscount but secretly in love with her neighbour Ted (Alan Bates), a lowly farm worker.

Leo is soon employed as their messenger, completely oblivious to the explosive, forbidden contents of the correspondence he carries - a task that will have tragic consequences for them all. Perfectly complemented by Michel Legrand's melodramatic piano score, this is a poignant, powerful look at the suffocating snobbery and subtleties of the English class system.

Fee: £4.60 full / £3.60 concs.

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Michel Legrand will be in concert at St Georges on Sat 31 March at 19:30.