THE first ever large-scale stage production of Evelyn Waugh’s classic novel Brideshead Revisited will be staged in Southampton next week.
Adapted by Bryony Lavery, the play is at Nuffield Theatre from May 10 to 14 and will commemorate the 50th anniversary year of Waugh’s death.
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 sparkling 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, Julia, Cordelia, Bridey and Sebastian Flyte re-emerge.
Damian Cruden directs Christopher Simpson as Sebastian, Brian Ferguson as Charles and Rosie Hilal as Julia. Nick Blakeley, Caroline Harker, Samantha Lawson, Kiran Sonia Sawar, Paul Shelley and Shuna Snow complete the company.
The play is a co-production between English Touring Theatre and York Theatre Royal.
Damian Cruden has been Artistic Director of York Theatre Royal for the past 18 years. He has directed many productions including: The Railway Children, In Fog and Falling Snow, The Restoration of Nell Gwyn and Blithe Spirit.
Tickets are available from the Box Office 023 8067 1771 or online at nuffieldtheatre.co.uk.
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