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Kitty is horrified over the news about Walter. She returns to Hong Kong and meets someone from her past. 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.
Set in 1920's China. Walter has cholera and Kitty is horrified and heartbroken. She leaves Mei-Fan-Tu and back in
Hong Kong finds herself in the same house as her ex-lover Charles Townsend.

Kitty Fane ...... Sarah Smart
Walter Fane ...... Nicholas Farrell
Waddington ... Conrad Nelson
Dorothy Townsend ..... Julia Rounthwaite
Charles Townsend ..... James Nickerson
Officer/Doctor ....... Chris Lee
Directed by Pauline Harris.

15 minutes

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