The elder son, now named Harry, pushes his younger brother, Miles, to the floor and releases his father from his grip.
Harry, who drew on the wall of the cave in act one, is now a master sculptor, at work on a gargoyle for the local cathedral.
Death will not have me.” FlatPack Productions staged a dramatic reading of the unpublished play in June 2009 at the Blue Elephant Theatre in Camberwell.
The world premiere of The Cave was directed by Aaron Paterson, also at the Blue Elephant Theatre in October 2010.
[1] It starred Sebastian Aguirre as Harry, Diane Axford as Mother, Nick Hoad as Father, Matthew Wade as Tom, Emily Wallis as Mary and Guy Warren-Thomas as Miles.
Reviews were generally positive.,[2] with Libby Purves writing of it in The Times that: It has streaks of the angry postwar nihilism of Anouilh and Sartre: the hopeful theme of rejecting fear and social coercion leads only to amoral fragmentation in the last act.
But it is extraordinary: a howl, an imperfect and painful philosophical struggle, part of a remarkable artist's testament.