The Card

Author(s): Arnold Bennett, adapted by Deborah McAndrew
Company: New Vic in association with Claybody Theatre

“What a card! He’s a rare ‘un, make no mistake”

From a young age, loveable rogue Denry Machin has his eyes set on great things and when life gives him an opportunity, he takes it.

A washerwoman’s son, his humble beginnings won’t hold him back from achieving a life he loves to live. Helped along by a little bit of luck, a lot of initiative and just a touch of chutzpah, he’s soon enjoying fame and fortune, becoming the most celebrated ‘card’ in The Five Towns!

A revival of Claybody Theatre’s original production seen at Fenton Town Hall in 2022, this stage adaptation of Arnold Bennett’s comic novel is set in a fictionalised Stoke-on-Trent known as The Five Towns.

Directed by Conrad Nelson (Anna of the Five Towns, Brassed Off).

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Gareth Cassidy (Denry Machin), Jessica Dyas (Ruth Earp) and Molly Roberts (Countess of Chell)

The Card

Arnold Bennett, adapted by Deborah McAndrew

New Vic Theatre in association with Claybody Theatre

New Vic Theatre, Newcastle-under-Lyme

20 May–10 June 2023

News items

New Vic and Claybody revive comic novel adaptation

28 April 2023

Newcastle-under-Lyme's New Vic and Claybody Theatre are to revive Deborah McAndrew’s adaptation of Arnold Bennett’s novel set in Stoke-on-Trent, The Card.

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