Penda's Fen (1974)

Directors

Alan John Clarke

Cast

Spencer Banks

The story

Set in the village of Pinvin in Worcestershire, England, the play is an evocation of conflicting forces within England past and present: authority, tradition, hypocrisy, landscape, art, sexuality, and, most of all, its mystical and ancient pagan past. All of this comes together in the growing pains of the adolescent Stephen, a vicar's son, whose encounters include angels, Edward Elgar and King Penda. Stephen is a devout Anglican traditionalist, believing in the sanctity of marriage and that the role of a family should be to raise children.

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