The Good Hope

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The Good Hope a play written by "Herman Heijermans" in (1901) was translated in a new version for the "Royal National Theatre" which relocated the action to the Yorkshire fishing community of Whitby in 1900, by "Lee Hall", writer of the award-winning "Billy Elliot" and "Spoonface Steinberg". The voyage of The Good Hope is a journey on which the life of the entire community depends. A storm rages, the women and children wait ashore, the boat follows the Greenland catch. A Dutch classic of the social realist theatre.