On the Isle of Wight, a colony of survivors wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Before long, the triffids, thought safely out of the way on the mainland, attack. In John Wyndham’s classic bestseller The Day of the Triffids, the world has been overwhelmed by killer plants. As the novel ends, scientist Bill Masen is escaping with his wife and four-year-old son to the Isle of Wight where a small colony of survivors is holding out.
The Night of the Triffids picks up the story twenty-five years later.
The survivors are safe, for the time being at least, on their island, where they have continued efforts to combat the triffids, while also striving in various ways to build a new civilization. Elsewhere in the world, similar colonies cling to survival, while the triffids persist in their attempts to destroy humanity.
One morning Bill Masen’s son, David, now grown up, wakes to a world plunged into darkness. Now the triffids have an advantage over humanity.
Cast:
Sam Troughton (David Masen), Nicola Bryant (Kerris/Marni/Rowena), Paul Clayton (Bill Masen / General Fielding), Geff Francis (Gabriel), John Schwab (Sam Dynes),Becky Wright (Kristina), Toby Longworth (Captain Sharpstone), Nigel Carrington (Seymour), Helen Goldwyn (Jazmay)
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“Readers will relish Clark’s uncomplicated cocktail of chlorophyll and human blood. Clark’s narrative is particularly well paced…The Night of the Triffids makes salutary reading for anyone who has noticed—as John Wyndham did—that advanced industrial civilization exists in a fragile condition of unstable equilibrium.”
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Financial Times (London)