In Lambeth is a 1989 play byJack Shepherd, centred on a meeting betweenWilliam Blake andThomas Paine in 1791. Its title quotes from Blake's poemJerusalem (plate 37, line 14 - "There is a Grain of Sand in Lambeth that Satan cannot find").
The play was first performed at the East Dulwich Tavern in London on 12 July 1989.[1][2] and then at theDonmar Warehouse, directed by Shepherd himself and starringBob Peck as Paine andMichael Maloney as Blake. Peck reprised the role (alongsideMark Rylance as Blake and Lesley Clare O'Neill as Katherine) in an adaptation of the play for television in theBBC TwoEncounters series, which featured similar fictionalized meetings between historical figures. First broadcast on 4 July 1993, it was directed by Sebastian Graham-Jones[3][4]
An anniversary tour of the play was produced by the group 'Love and Madness' from February to April 2010, this time starring Shepherd.[5] The play is also being produced at theSouthwark Playhouse between 10 July and 2 August 2014, directed by Michael Kingsbury and starring Blair Anderson, Melody Grove, Christopher Hunter and Tom Mothersdale.[6]
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