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4 Extra Debut. 1920s Hong Kong: Married for the wrong reasons, Kitty loves another man and faces a terrible ultimatum. Stars Sarah Smart.
by Somerset Maugham
dramatised by Lizzie Nunnery
First published in 1925 to a storm of protest this is a haunting and poignant drama of a woman's spiritual awakening.
Kitty marries for the wrong reasons and is living with her husband, Walter, in Hong Kong. She's in love with another man and when her husband discovers her infidelity he, in an act of vengeance, poses a terrible ultimatum.
Kitty ....... Sarah Smart
Walter ..... Nicholas Farrell
Charles ....... James Nickerson
Shop worker ....... Chris Li
Directed by Pauline Harris.
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