After Haggerty - Frank Finlay Net

After Haggerty
By David Mercer
Directed by David Jones

Royal Shakespeare Company
Aldwych Theatre, London - Opened 26th February 1970
Transfered to: Criterion Theatre, London - Opened February 4th 1971
"Frank Finlay's interpretation of the lugubrious, defeated critic, crushed by the ashes of his burnt-out political, artistic and family values, is warm, humane and superbly funny".

Milton Shulman Evening Standard 5/2/1971

Gathering together the political and social concerns of an era, After Haggerty addresses with breadth and complexity the politics of theatre and personal liberation at a time when social certainties were being rapidly destabilised.

Bernard Link, a socialist middle-aged theatre critic, has leased a flat in London from Mr Haggerty without having met him. Claire, who is sharp, brittle and American, storms into the flat expecting to find the father of her child, but finds Bernard instead. He is having the flat done up by a couple of jobbing decorators, including an out-of-work homosexual actor. The unhappy cohabitation of this mixture of people is punctuated by excepts from Bernard's pan-European lectures on Marxist theatre, cryptic telegrams from Haggerty in Paris, and the off-stage squalling of Claire and Haggerty's baby, Raskolnikov. Then Bernard's father visits, his reactionary, bigoted views clashing with what suddenly feels like a household.
Frank Finlay ... Bernard
Billie Whitelaw ... Claire
David Wood ... Roger
John White ... Chris
Leslie Sands ... Mr Link
Valerie Colgan ... Interpreter
Alec Wallis ... Interpreter
Merdel Jordine ... Interpreter
Valerie Colgan ... Actor
Merdel Jordine ... Actor
Brett Forrest ... Actor
Malcolm Kaye ... Actor
Lewis Wilson ... Delivery Man
Alec Wallis ... Delivery Man