Maurice
From: Saturday, 4th September 2010
To: Saturday, 25 September 2010
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Synopsis
As a typical product of middle-class suburbia, Maurice finds it difficult coming to terms with his sexuality. He first glimpses the possibility of an unconventional life when he meets and falls in love with Clive, a fellow Cambridge undergraduate, but when Clive turns to women, Maurice feels betrayed.
Our Review:
22 September 2010
This is the second run Roger Parsley's adaptation of EM Forster's Maurice has had at Above the Stag, and it's easy to see why. Adam Lilley's honest and intricate portrayal of Maurice Hall, a young man sheltered from sexuality by his restrictive feminine upbringing, provides this play with an engrossing emotional core.
Tim McArthur's production demonstrates an intimate knowledge of and fondness for Forster's work, and it flourishes in its detail. Incorporating studied Forsterian nuances such as the use of an umbrella as a veiled symbol of homosexuality, Maurice is awash with euphemisms both crass and clever.
Adam Lilley strikes a fine balance between sexual swagger and shamefulness, and the thinly veiled eroticism of his playfights with his Cambridge contemporary and first-love Clive Durham is a careful mix of abundance and restraint. The female characters have a hard time playing second fiddle in this male-centric plot...
Cast
Laura Armstrong
Gavin Dobson
Jonathan Hansler
Persia Lawson
Adam Lilley
Leanne Masterton
Stevie Raine
Rob Stott
Gil Sutherland
Creative
E M Forster (Book)
Peter Bull (for Above the Stag Theatre) (Producer)
Roger Parsley (Adaptation)
Andy Graham (Adaptation)
Above the Stag (Producer)
Tim McArthur (Director)
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