蜜芽传媒

Two women re-enact a familiar ritual connected with a crucial event in their past lives.

One of them actually experienced it, the other did not... One of them is too young to remember, the other too old to distinguish between the past itself and representations of it.

Madeleine .... Irene Worth
The Young Woman .... Helen Mirren

Written by Marguerite Duras

Translated and adapted by Barbara Bray

Pianist: Mary Nash

Director: John Tydeman

First broadcast on 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4 in 1985.