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 tells his father of his financial problems at Oxford University.
Charles meets his friend Sebastian Flyte and sister Julia at Brideshead.
Charles and Sebastian enjoy lunch on the roof of Brideshead castle.
They are disturbed by Sebastian's brother Brideshead and sister Cordelia.
Charles and Sebastian go to Venice to meet Lord Marchmain.
Lord Marchmain's lover Cara arrives.
Julia introduces her fiancé Rex Mottram.
Charles, Sebastian and their friend Boy Mulcaster at a nightclub with Effie, one of the hostesses.
Charles meets Lady Marchmain.
Mr Samgrass 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 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.
Cara and Cordelia bring Lord Marchmain. He is near to death.
Cast
CHARLES RYDER:
SEBASTIAN FLYTE:
HOOPER/ BRIDESHEAD/ BOY MULCASTER:
MR RYDER/ FATHER PHIPPS:
ANTHONY BLANCHE/ KURT:
JASPER/ MR SAMGRASS:
LORD MARCHMAIN:
REX MOTTRAM:
JULIA FLYTE:
LADY MARCHMAIN:
CORDELIA FLYTE/ CELIA RYDER:
CARA/ EFFIE:
NANNY HAWKINS:
SEBASTIAN FLYTE:
HOOPER/ BRIDESHEAD/ BOY MULCASTER:
MR RYDER/ FATHER PHIPPS:
ANTHONY BLANCHE/ KURT:
JASPER/ MR SAMGRASS:
LORD MARCHMAIN:
REX MOTTRAM:
JULIA FLYTE:
LADY MARCHMAIN:
CORDELIA FLYTE/ CELIA RYDER:
CARA/ EFFIE:
NANNY HAWKINS:
Nigel Smith
Adam Thompson
Steve Bradley
James Rawes
David Bone
Adrian Hoodless
Peter Nicholson
Andy Jameson
Carol Parradine
Jan Ford
Lynda Shelverton
Marcia Baldry
Jan Mitchell
Adam Thompson
Steve Bradley
James Rawes
David Bone
Adrian Hoodless
Peter Nicholson
Andy Jameson
Carol Parradine
Jan Ford
Lynda Shelverton
Marcia Baldry
Jan Mitchell