Bonaventure
N a wild night in the winter of 1947 floods poured over the flat East Anglian countryside. Villagers driven from their homes streamed in to the convent of Our Lady of Rheims, a nursing order. In a short while-the Great Dyke collapsed and for. a few days the convent becatne an islet completely shut off from the world, Four strangers also sought sanctuary at the convent. They were a police party escorting # convieted murderess, the artist Sarat Carn, from London back to Norwich. Poor, embittered, terrified Sarat wins the sympathy of Sister Mary Bonaventure, but Sister Mary is not without her own spiritual. torments. After seven years she has grown’ to doubt the strength of her vocation. In those few days granted-to her while the flood waters lap around the stout stone walls she fights to prove Sarat’s . innocence. Bonaventure, a ‘play. by Charlotte Hastings, was produced for the NZBS by Bernard Beeby. The title role was played..by Davina Whitehouse; Sarat Carn by Peggy Walker, and Dr. Jeffreys by William Austin. It-will be heard in ZB Sunday Showcase on Sunday, February 6, at 9.35 p.m.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 20
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186Bonaventure New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 809, 28 January 1955, Page 20
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