The voyage of the Good Hope is a journey on which the life of an entire community depends. A storm rages, the women and children wait ashore, and the boat follows the Greenland catch... This Dutch classic of social realist theatre has been relocated to the Yorkshire fishing community of Whitby in 1900 by Lee Hall, writer of the award-winning Billy Elliot and Spoonface Steinberg. A poetic account of the fisherman's life, The Good Hope has not been performed in the UK for more than fifty years and is rediscovered at a time when the fishing industry is once again in strife. Lee Hall's version of Herman Heijermans' The Good Hope premiered at the Cottesloe Theatre, Royal National Theatre, London, in November 2001.
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