Thomas Hardy’s most popular story which was also his first major literary success gets the New Vic treatment this week in a new adaptation.
Far From the Madding Crowd will be staged by the Newcastle-under-Lyme theatre-in-the-round and will be adapted by the venue’s artistic director Theresa Heskins.
Commenting about her previous adaptations, she said, “I like to tell big, impossible-to-stage stories.
“In Alice in Wonderland, Great Expectations and Jamaica Inn, audiences young and old were surprised and delighted by the imaginative ways the New Vic staged the unstageable and by our fast-moving, action-packed approach.”
Far From the Madding Crowd tells the story of Bathsheba Everdene who’s determined to be her own woman. But she has to make a choice when she attracts the attention of three men.
Her decision sets in motion a dramatic chain of events which change their lives forever.
The production runs from Friday (18 May) until Saturday, 9 June.