Project Description
★★★★
‘New production of Brideshead Revisited is serious, witty and elegant’
★★★★
‘Bryony Lavery’s script is slick and sleek and as faithful to the original inasmuch as a stage adaptation of a novel can be’
‘Beautifully conveyed’
‘Waugh’s charming men hit the stage in style’
‘Bryony Lavery delivers the spirit and essence of Waugh’s bittersweet story’
It’s 1943 and, finding himself in familiar territory within the English countryside, Charles Ryder confronts memories of his first youthful encounter with Brideshead Castle and its assortment of eccentric inhabitants.
In acclaimed playwright Bryony Lavery’s sparking new reimagining of the classic novel, the past and the present blur as Charles recalls those heady days at Brideshead and Lord and Lady Marchmain, along with their offspring, Julie, Cordelia, Bridey and Sebastian Flyte re-emerge…
Creatives
Writer – Bryony Lavery
Director – Damian Cruden
Designer – Sara Perks
Lighting Designer – Richard G. Jones
Sound Designer – Yvonne Gilbert
Composer – Christopher Madin
Movement Director – Philippa Vafadari
Dialect – Nick Trumble
Dance Advisor – Rae Piper
Casting Director – Polly Jerrold
Associate Director – Kirsty Patrick Ward
Advertising & Marketing – Joe Public Ltd
Press & Publicity – Kate Morley PR
Cast
Nick Blakeley
Brian Ferguson
Caroline Harker
Rosie Hilal
Samantha Lawson
Kiran Sonia Sawar
Paul Shelley
Christopher Simpson
Shuna Snow
Produced for and on behalf of English Touring Theatre & York Theatre Royal