Rehearsals have begun for Peter Hall's rep season at Bath Thetare Royal
(27th June - 25th August). The season consists of Pygmalion,
Little Nell, Victory and How The Other Half Loves
in the Main House, and Animal Farm in the Egg.
Animal Farm
By George Orwell, adapted by Peter Hall with lyrics by Adrian Mitchell
and music by Richard Peaslee
Directed by Rachel O'Riordan
Wednesday June 27 - Saturday July 21, in rep with Pygmalion
and Little Nell
Pygmalion
By George Bernard Shaw
Directed by Peter Hall
Thursday June 28 - Saturday July 28 in rep with Animal Farm
and Little Nell
Cast includes Michelle Dockery (Eliza), Tim Pigott-Smith (HIggins),
and Tony Haygarth, Barbara Jefford, Una Stubbs and Barry Stanton
Little Nell
By Simon Gray, based on The Invisible Woman by Claire Tomalin
Directed by Peter Hall
Wednesday July 4 - Saturday July 28 in rep with Animal Farm and
Pygmalion
Cast: Loo Brealey (Nell), Tony Haygarth (Benham), Michael Pennington
(Dickens), Tim Piggot Smith (Geoffrey), Barry Stanton (Henry Dickens)
At the age of forty five, Charles Dickens was at the height of his
powers. Revered as much for the staunchness of his moral views as
for his literary genius, in the eyes of his adoring public he could
do no wrong.
What Charles Dickens kept hidden, however, was his all-consuming passion
for Nelly Ternan, a girl young enough to be his daughter, a girl just
on the cusp of womanhood...
Victory
By Athol Fugard
Directed by Cordelia Monsey
Wednesday August 1 - Saturday August 25 in rep with How the Other
Half Loves
Cast includes Richard Johnson and Pippa Bennett-Warner
Vicky was named to celebrate Nelson Mandela’s victorious walk
to freedom at the dawn of a new South Africa. Her mother worked happily
as Lionel’s maid for seventeen years. Vicky played at Lionel's
house as a child as if it was her own home and it was Lionel who encouraged
her educational aspirations. So when Lionel- widowed and alone - catches
two burglars ransacking his house and finds that one of them is Vicky,
it is more than his possessions which are destroyed.
How the Other Half Loves
By Alan Ayckbourn
Directed by Alan Strachan
Tuesday August 7 - Saturday August 25 in rep with Victory
Cast includes Nicholas Le Prevost and Marsha Fitzalan
