The first ever large-scale stage production of Evelyn Waugh's classic novel Brideshead Revisited, adapted by Bryony Lavery, will launch next week in the 50th anniversary year of Waugh's death, presented by English Touring Theatre. BroadwayWorld brings you an exclusive new trailer for the production below!
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, a co-production between English Touring Theatre and York Theatre Royal, opens at York on 26 April, with previews from 22 April, before touring to Bath, Southampton, Cambridge, Malvern, Brighton, Oxford and Richmond, as well as second run in York.
It's 1943 and, finding himself in familiar territory within the English countryside, Charles Ryderconfronts memories of his first youthful encounter with Brideshead Castle and its assortment of eccentric inhabitants.
Tour Dates
York Theatre Royal
22 April - 30 April
01904 623568
www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
Theatre Royal Bath
3 - 7 May
01225 448844
www.theatreroyal.org.uk
Nuffield Theatre
10 - 14 May
023 8067 1771
www.nuffieldtheatre.co.uk
Cambridge Arts Theatre
17 - 21 May
0844 412 4652
www.cambridgeartstheatre.com
Malvern Theatres
31 May - 4 June
01684 892277
www.malvern-theatres.co.uk
Theatre Royal Brighton
7 June - 11 June
0844 871 7650
www.atgtickets.com/venues/theatre-royal-brighton/
Oxford Playhouse
14 - 18 June
0844 871 3020
www.oxfordplayhouse.com
York Theatre Royal
21 - 25 June
01904 623568
www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk
Richmond Theatre
29 June - 2 July
0844 871 7651
http://www.atgtickets.com/venues/richmond-theatre/
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