May/June 2006

Brideshead Revisited
by Evelyn Waugh

adapted for the stage
by Roger Parsley
 

Directed by
Karen Ashton

"Ambitious project pays off"
Dunmow Observer

"Challenge met with supreme confidence"
Braintree & Witham Times

Brideshead Revisited is a satirical study by Evelyn Waugh of a doomed aristocratic Catholic family, its descent into degeneracy and subsequent redemption through the workings of providence and recovery of faith. It tells the story of Charles Ryder's infatuation with the Flyte family and the rapidly disappearing world of privilege they inhabit.

Charles Ryder (Nigel Smith) tells his father
(James Rawes) of his financial problems
at Oxford University.

Charles meets his friend Sebastian Flyte (Adam Thompson) and sister Julia (Carol Parradine) at Brideshead.

Charles and Sebastian enjoy lunch on the roof of
Brideshead castle.

They are disturbed by Sebastian's brother Brideshead  (Steve Bradley) and sister Cordelia (Lynda Shelverton).

Charles and Sebastian go to Venice to meet Lord Marchmain (Peter Nicholson).

Lord Marchmain's lover Cara (Marcia Baldry)   arrives.

Julia introduces her fiancé
Rex Mottram (Andy Jameson).

Charles, Sebastian and their friend Boy Mulcaster (Steve Bradley) at a nightclub with Effie (Marcia Baldry), one of the hostesses.

Charles meets Lady Marchmain (Jan Ford).

Mr Samgrass (Adrian Hoodless) shows photographs of his trip to the Levant with Sebastian.

Sebastian enters drunk, to the disdain of the family.

Charles paints in his Paris studio.

Charles travels to Fez looking for Sebastian.
He finds Kurt (David Bone) living with him.

Charles sees Sebastian, who is very ill, for the last time.

On his return from New York, Charles sees
Julia who, unknown to him, is on the same ship.

She seduces him.

At a private view of his Latin American work, Charles bumps into Anthony Blanche (David Bone).