'The waves are higher than the ship they’ve gone to save'

Theatre

Robert Duncan as the lifeboat's coxswain
Helen Maybanks

Into the Night resembles Thornton Wilder’s great novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey, which tells us that everyone died in an accident but then explores the chance and choice that led them to their fate

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