Synopsis
The Hidden River
Ruth Goetz & Augustus Goetz from Storm Jameson
Published by Dramatists Play Service
7 Male 3 Female
His return coincides with the return from prison of the eldest member of the family, who was locked away five years for continuing during wartime an old friendship with a German general, as intellectual if not as completely immured in the peaceful pre-war world as he
Behind everybody and every action stands the figure of a resistance leader, Robert, who was captured at Orleans in 1944 and tortured to death by the invaders. He peers out of the grief-pained eyes of his mother, the guilt-clouded vision of the senior brother of the house and the Englishman who counts him a friend
All of these people are driven by an anguished need to identify his betrayer " ~ Beckley
"A bang-up melodrama" ~ NY World Telegram & Sun
" driving, biting, stinging whiplash of a play above all it is a stirring drama" ~ NY Herald-Tribune