description: The adaptation of George Steiner's novel The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H. was performed at the Mermaid theatre during 1982. Irving Wardle wrote in The Times:'The novel examines the dilemma that has haunted the Western conscience since the Nuremberg Trials; what justice can there be for criminals whose acts dwarf all previous notions of human crime? It also shows a Jewish intellectual, for whom language defines our moral condition, using all his powers to penetrate the mind of the enemy. To transfer such a work to the stage is not simply a technical matter.Christopher Hampton's adaptation finds a master key to the work through simultaneous action...Dexter's production is about the positive power of evil as well as our numbed responses to it.'
language: English
title: The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
titlecomplete: The Portage to San Cristobal of A.H.
ratings_count: 6
publisher: Faber and Faber Ltd