Savannah Bay by Marguerite Duras

Two women re-enact a familiar ritual connected with a crucial event in their past lives.

One of them actually experienced it, the other did not...

One of them is too young to remember, the other too old to distinguish between the past itself and representations of it.

Starring Irene Worth and Helen Mirren.

Marguerite Duras's elegy, first published in 1982

Translated and adapted by Barbara Bray.

Madeleine .... Irene Worth
The Young Woman .... Helen Mirren

Pianist: Mary Nash

Director: John Tydeman

First broadcast on BBC Radio 4 in November 1985.