Thunder Rock (play)
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Thunder Rock is a 1939 play by Robert Ardrey.
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Written by | Robert Ardrey |
Characters | Charleston, Streeter, Nonny, Inspector Flanning, Captain Joshua, Briggs, Dr. Stephan Kurtz, Melanie, Anne Marie, Miss Kirby, Chang |
Date premiered | November 14, 1939 (1939-11-14) |
Place premiered | Mansfield Theatre |
Original language | English |
Subject | World War II, American Isolationism |
Genre | Drama |
Setting | Thunder Rock Lighthouse, Lake Michigan |
The initial Broadway production, put on by the Group Theater and directed by Elia Kazan, closed after a short run, but the play was far more successful in wartime London. Thunder Rock became a symbol of British resistance[1][2] and was the most notable play of World War II.[3][4] It was first produced in a little-known theater in South Kensington but was transferred, with secret funding from Her Majesty's Treasury,[5] to the Globe Theatre in London's West End.[6][7]: 66
Thunder Rock has seen many adaptations, including a BBC radio version in 1940 and a 1942 film starring Michael Redgrave and Barbara Mullen with James Mason in a minor role. In 1947 CBS broadcast a radio production; it was awarded a Peabody Award.[8] Stage productions have been mounted all over the world, including an unauthorized production in Zurich,[9] a U.S. government-sponsored production in occupied Berlin,[10]: 24–5 and popular post-war productions throughout Europe and Africa, including in Harare and Nairobi.[7]: 66