Around the World in 80 Days
What delightful license Victorian melodrama gave to its presenters encouraging verbal histrionics, inciting exaggerated physical performance and generally favouring ham in all its forms.
Craig Edwards (Mr Phileas Fogg) and Jessica Pidsley (Passepartout) in Around the World in 80 Days at the Theatre Royal Bath Egg Studio Photo: Farrows Creative
Director Lee Lyford makes a comic virtue of all these indulgences for the in-house holiday offering at the Theatre Royal’s youth home of the Jules Verne classic liberally adapted by Toby Hulse.
Craig Edwards, all top hat and twinkling teeth, is Phileas Fogg the London gent who circumnavigates the earth against the clock to win a bet. His servant Passepartout, in this interpretation a mademoiselle played by Jessica Pidsley, and Gregor Henderson-Begg’s blundering detective Fix of the Yard are his travelling companions. These three cover all the other parts as well creating an intentional mayhem which even produces a mustachioed princess.
The clever mix of movie image and live actors is superbly enhanced by Hayley Grindle’s stage within a stage which changes as swiftly as the performers and becomes all modes of transport from carriage, train, boat and even elephant.
Production information
- By:
- Jule Verne, adapted by Jules Verne, adapted by Toby Hulse
- Composer:
- Paul Dodgson
- Management:
- Theatre Royal, Egg, Bath
- Cast:
- Craig Edwards, Jessica Pidsley, Gregor Henderson-Begg
- Director:
- Lee Lyford
- Design:
- Hayley Grindle
- Lighting:
- Anselm Harrison
Production information can change over the run of the show.
Run sheet
- Theatre Royal, Egg Bath
- December 22 2009-January 16 2010
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