The white man's burden: A play in two acts

by Paul Theroux

Hardcover

Published January 1, 1987

About the author

Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best known work is The Great Railway Bazaar (1975), a travelogue about a trip he made by train from Great Britain through Western and Eastern Europe, the Middle East, through South Asia, then South-East Asia, up through East Asia, as far east as Japan, and then back across Russia to his point of origin. Although perhaps best known as a travelogue writer, Theroux has also published numerous works of fiction, some of which were made into feature films. He was awarded the 1981 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel The Mosquito Coast.

He is the father of Marcel and Louis Theroux, and the brother of Alexander and Peter. Justin Theroux is his nephew.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 3 out of 5]

A radio adaptation of Paul Theroux's stage play about the young Rudyard Kipling's humiliating final months as an American resident. The great English writer plans to settle in Vermont with his American wife, but a clash with his brother-in-law results in death threats, a court case and public scandal. Will Kipling manage to keep his head when all about are losing theirs?

Rudyard Kipling ..... Nicholas Boulton
Carrie Kipling ..... Teresa Gallagher
Beatty Balestier ..... Nathan Osgood
Mary Hackett ..... Sasha Pick
Howard/ Hitt ..... David Rintoul
Conland/ Judge Newton ..... Peter Marinker
Fitts ..... John Guerrasio

Written by Paul Theroux
Adapted and directed by Emma Harding.

[Bettie · Rating 2 out of 5]

Adaptation of Paul Theroux's stage play about Rudyard Kipling's time in America.

Wow - if this play is a biography then these times in America were awful from all sides. No-one comes out of this looking very lovely do they!? One wants to bang a few heads together.