I can't imagine anybody would come out of On The Beach and not hold their loved ones just that little bit closer
- Written by: Huw Griffiths, Associate Professor of English Literature, University of Sydney
Daniel Boud/Sydney Theatre CompanyReview: On The Beach, directed by Kip Williams.
When Nevil Shute wrote his 1957 novel On the Beach, the world was emerging from the devastation of the second world war to confront new fears.
Shute imagines a not-too-distant future in which a short nuclear war has destroyed life on much of the planet. It has left...
