A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

April 6th – 13th

ATale Of Two Cities
by Charles Dickens. Adapted for the stage by Mark Fitzgibbons

Toads Theatre Company. The Little Theatre St Marks Road Meadfoot Torquay TQ1 2EL
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Coffee shop & bar open before the performance and the bar is open after the performance until 11pm.
There is no performance on Sundays.

All performances start at 7.30pm
Director - Nigel Howells
Assistant Director - Helen Gould

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A Tale Of Two Cities.

The story set in London and Paris before and during the French Revolution, is one of Dickens most famous works. Director Nigel Howells sets the action of London and Paris between 1775 and 1792 in an English innyard, allowing for scenes to take place in many different times and places. With a cast of twenty eight the stage will reverberate with Royalty and Protagonists, most notably Charles Darnay and Sydney Carton, and an array of citizens of England and France.
Dickens compared the plight of the French peasantry demoralized by the French aristocracy in the years leading up to the revolution and the corresponding brutality demonstrated by the revolutionaries toward the former aristocrats in the early years of the revolution, and wrote about the many unflattering social parallels with life in London during the same time period.
When Dickens was writing A Tale Of Two Cities, English inns were experiencing hard times and in an attempt to improve business, inexpensively produced entertainments were presented in the innyards and is the reason for this wonderful production being staged within such a perfect setting.
In their dual roles as the play’s narrators and directors, the four innkeepers, listed in the programme as the Kings and Queens of England and France, also perform the parts of the story’s minor characters. In addition, the Innkeepers/Narrators solve another dilemma faced by the adaptor which is to preserve as much of the novel’s narrative as possible.

Cast:
King of England - Rob Lord
> King of France - Roy Winbow
> Queen of England - Jill Pettigrew
> Queen of France - Sara Marshall
> Jerry Cruncher - John Hall
> Jarvis Lorry - Alan Tanner
> Lucie Manette - Becca Lamburn
> Ernest Defarge - Paul Hedge
> Madame Defarge - Adele Reynolds
> Jaques One - John Miles
> Jaques Two - Reg Bale
> Jaques Three - Alec Stokes
> Mr Stryver - Roger Heath
> Mr Barsad - Jeff Pirie
> Dr Manette - Tony Pinches
> Charles Darnay - Jack Wills
> Sidney Carton - Jon Witchell
> Miss Pross - Camille Herbert
> Marquis St Everemonde - Laurence Frewin
> Vengeance - Julia Bale
> Gaspard - Peter Adams
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> Citizens of England and France
> Alex Garside
> Glynis Tame
> Sherry Burcher
> Jean Tolchard
> Janet Downer
> Helen Gould
> Jim Duncan

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