Heart of Darkness
Heart of Darkness (1899) is a novella by Polish-English novelist Joseph Conrad about a narrated voyage up the Congo River into the Congo Free State in the so-called "heart of Africa". Charles Marlow, the narrator, tells his story to friends aboard a boat anchored on the River Thames. This setting provides the frame for Marlow's story of his obsession with the ivory trader Kurtz, which enables Conrad to create a parallel between what Conrad calls "the greatest town on earth", London, and Africa as places of darkness.
Dominic Mafham
His more recent feature films include playing Dr Wangel in "Heart of Lightness", a film directed by Jan Vardøen set in Arctic Norway based on Henrik Ibsen's play "The Lady From The Sea". He played Sir Horsa in "Dragonheart, Druid's Curse", the third in Universal Studios' "Dragonheart" series, directed by Colin Teague; and Guy 'Bullet Face' Bidwell in "", a Sony Pictures film with Tom Berenger and Dennis Haysbert, directed by Don Michael Paul. Mafham returned as Bidwell in the next instalment of the "Sniper" film series released in 2016.