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‘Pack of Lies’ by Hugh Whitemore

 Directed by Dean Laccohee.

Performances

10, 11 & 12 November at the Commemoration Hall, Huntingdon.

'Pack Of Lies' Trailer (AVI) from Dean Laccohee on Vimeo.

NODA review here.

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Synopsis

The play is set in the 1960s and is based on a true incident. In 1961, Peter and Helen Kroger, two Americans living in a London suburb, were convicted of spying for the Russians and sentenced to twenty years' imprisonment. From these true facts Hugh Whitmore has written a powerfully moving fictional account of the events leading up to their arrest, with the action centred on the totally unsuspecting Jackson household - Bob, Barbara and their daughter Julie. The Jacksons live opposite the Krogers, believing them to be a convivial Canadian couple and their closest friends. Then a mysterious stranger arrives, announcing he is from M.I.5, and quietly coerces the Jacksons into allowing their house to be used as a surveillance post. In the nightmare months that follow, the Jacksons' decent, happy life is shattered as the truth about their much-loved friends is gradually revealed to them and, helpless in an alien, sordid world of deception and treachery, Barbara reaches breaking point, with the agonizing realization that she has been betrayed by her friends and they, in turn, have been betrayed by her.

Cast

Huntingdon Drama Club