Christopher Fry
A couple, unsure of their whereabouts on Millennium New Year's Eve, comes into a small village hotel, seeking directions. They are in Elstow, the birthplace of John Bunyan, the troubled author of The Pilgrim's Progress. As they converse with the hotel receptionist and the local bell-ringers, memories, history, religion and philosophical speculation converge.
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Christopher Fry (1907-2005), born in Bristol, England, was one of the few 20th-century dramatists to write successfully in verse. His first major success was The Lady’s Not for Burning (1949), a wry comedy set in the Middle Ages in which love overcomes prejudice and hypocrisy ...