Brand (1959)
Overview
Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of the play, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealistic view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
Cast
Patrick McGoohan
Brand
Dilys Hamlett
Agnes
James Maxwell
Ejnar
Patrick Wymark
Mayor
Peter Sallis
Doctor & Provost
Olive McFarland
Gerd
Fulton Mackay
Villager
Patrick Kavanagh
VillagerRecommendations
Mansfield Park
Seeds of Yesterday
Hello Sister, Goodbye Life
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Truth About Emanuel
I Believe
Sound of Christmas
Anne of Green Gables
Northfork
Flowers in the Attic
Where the Red Fern Grows
Skater Girl
The Book of Daniel
The Christmas Shoes
Won't Back Down
Knock on Any Door
Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors
Too Late Blues
Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace