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A TALE OF TWO CITIES
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Season Now Closed!
Performance Dates Were
Saturday, July 14 (Bastille Day!) - Tuesday, July 24.
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One of the greatest stories ever told, this adaptation for stage is thrilling, moving and fast paced.
Director Anna McPhail comes to us from the Court theatre where one of her favourite experiences was playing multiple roles in the hugely successful 'Great Expectations'. The timing is right for another Dickens! Here's to “the best of times---------”
The setting is 1775 to 1792 - England and France – the terrifying background of the French Revolution.
The storming of the Bastille, the trundling death carts with their doomed human cargo, the chillingly merciless guillotine - this is the frenzied Paris in revolt that Charles Dickens vividly captures in his famous work A Tale of Two Cities.
With passionate eloquence, he brings to life a time of terror and treason, for when the starving French masses rise to overthrow a corrupt and decadent regime, both the guilty and the innocent fall victim to their rage.
A masterful portrait of idealism, love and supreme sacrifice-in a Paris alive with revolutionary zeal and a London watching with nervous anticipation, Dickens humanises the story of the French Revolution with four of his greatest characters: the sinister Madame Defarge, the lovely Lucie Manette and her honorable husband Charles Darnay, and the complex, ultimately heroic Sydney Carton.
Cast List
Males
Mr Jarvis Lorry- |
Banker, a man of business 60'ies |
Adrian McNamara |
Jerry Cruncher- |
Odd-job man at Tellson's Bank, an “honest tradesman” 30/40'ies |
David Allen |
Dr Alexandre Manette- |
Bastille prisoner for 18 years, older than his years, 60'ies |
Warren Grenfell |
Defarge - |
Wine-shop keeper in St Antoine, a revolutionary patriot, 40'ies |
Nathan Kennedy |
Marquis St Evremonde*- |
An ageing aristocrat. Uncle of Charles Darnay. |
Tony Carrabes |
Charles Darnay - |
An idealistic French arisistocrat Bears striking resemblance to Sydney Carton, late thirties. |
Sam Collins |
Gabelle/Gaspard - |
Bonded servant to the Marquis. |
Phillip Lee |
Sydney Carton - |
A brilliant advocate – striking physical resemblance to Darnay, thirties. |
Liam Connell |
John Barsad *- |
An English spy for hire. Actually Solomon Pross, brother of Miss Pross |
Sydney Hogarth |
Attorney-General *- |
English, legal man of authority |
Graham Howard |
Judge/Rector |
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Gary Fox |
Joe |
(Coachman) |
Ben Lye |
Tom |
(Coachman) |
Oscar Enberg |
Landlord |
Avid Pakzad |
* indicates also part of the ensemble
Females
Lucie Manette - |
Daughter of Dr Manette, young. |
Rachel Walsh |
Miss Pross - |
Companion to Lucie – an older woman of character. 50'ies |
Felicity Watson |
Madame Defarge - |
Wife of Defarge, leader of the women revolutionaries, 40'ies |
Annette Thomson |
The Vengeance *- |
A strong revolutionary, friend of Mde Defarge |
Jenepher Glue |
Yvette* - |
A young servant/seamstress in the house of d' Evremonde. Daughter of Gabelle. |
Rosie Evans |
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Ensemble- |
Alex Lye, Ben Lye, Zayne Blee, Shaquila Blee,Julia Howard, Xavia Jordyn, Alexus Jordan, Meli Bach, Brooke Clemence, Paige Delaney |
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Clerk, Officers, Drummer, English Judge, |
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French Judge, Foreman, Child, Carollers, Crowds |
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