The Mill on the Floss
From: Tuesday, 3rd April 2001
To: Saturday, 5 May 2001
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Synopsis
Wild and clever, Maggie Tulliver struggles with Victorian society's stifling conventions. Denied the opportunities offered to her adored brother Tom, she desperately tries to reconcile her thirst for knowledge with her family's expectations. But then Maggie meets a passionate man who loves her for her wit, intelligence and sensuality, and her true nature threatens to erupt...
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5 April 2001
Shared Experience lives up to its reputation for deft re-interpretations of literary classics with this stage version of George Eliot's Mill on the Floss, adapted by Helen Edmundson. The Victorian novel caused a sensation when it was published in 1860, not just for the gender of its author (real name: Mary Ann Evans), but also for its premise that a woman should strive for an education and the trappings it afforded.
The story of Mill on the Floss's Maggie Tulliver is a highly autobiographical one. Like Maggie, Evans/Eliot was a precocious girl whose less intelligent brother, by dent of his sex, received the coveted tuition. Also like Maggie, Evans/Eliot harboured a romance that generated social consternation and resulted in a deep family rift. Unlike in the novel, however, she was able to overcome these hurdles. Maggie is not so lucky, and upon her are visited all the tragedies that follow from such Victorian strictures.
In the play, sensitively directed...
Latest User Review
USER: Whatsonstage.com - 20 April 2001:
If you normally think (as I do) that stage adaptations of period stories are the last word in unimaginative theatre, think again. This is thrilling and wholly original in concept and execution. The physicality takes mime to the edges of dance; the emotional versatility of the eight actors persuades you that you're watching a cast of epic proportions - which, in a way, you are! Now that this brilliant show has hit a West End theatre at last, I trust it will be eligible for an Olivier Award. Shared Experience deserves nothing less....
Cast
Pip Donaghy
Caroline Faber
Jessica Lloyd
Hilary Maclean
Michael Matus
Joseph Millson
Hywel Morgan
Pauline Turner
Creative
George Eliot (Book)
Shared Experience Theatre (Company)
Helen Edmundson (Adaptation)
Nancy Meckler (Director)
Polly Teale (Director)
Bunny Christie (Design)
Peter Salem (Music)
Chris Davey (Lighting)
Liz Ranken (Choreographer)
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