Year: 2004
Title of the play: The Woman in White
Author: Charlotte Jones after the novel by Wilkie Collins; Music: Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyrics: David Zippel
Director: Trevor Nunn
Others in the Cast: Michael Crawford, Martin Crewes, Angela Christian, Maria Friedman, Jill Paice
Company/Event:
Theatre and location: Palace Theatre, London
Other productions of the same play:
Plot summary: A dashing young man, employed as the art tutor to two devoted sisters, is stranded at a remote railway cutting. Out of the darkness looms a woman, a mysterious figure dressed in white, desperate to share a chilling secret. He and the sisters soon find themselves trapped in a web of betrayal and greed, the victims of a seemingly flawless crime.
Peth’s role: Mr Fairlie
Reviews:
Trevor Nunn's production has now been almost entirely re-cast since its first opened (only Edward Petherbridge remains of the original principals), but it has also been fine-tuned. - Mark Shenton, What's on Stage
Sir
Percival Glyde (Oliver Darley) is the principal villain of the piece: he it is
who marries Laura Fairlie (Jill Paice) against her will, with the help of her
weak-kneed, neurasthenic uncle (Edward Petherbridge). Jones has left out some
of the detail of the relationship between the two men, but the main thrust of
the plot remains, and Petherbridge, playing Mr Fairlie as a fidgety Dickensian
eccentric, regarding the proceedings with a look of fastidious disapproval,
gives a gem of a performance. - John Peter, The Sunday Times, September 19, 2004
At
the show's center, as in the novel, are two half sisters: the lovely, demure
heiress Laura Fairlie (Jill Paice) and the scrappier, plainer Marian Halcombe
(Ms. Friedman), who live in sororal harmony on a country estate with their
vain, hypochondriacal uncle (Edward Petherbridge). - Ben Brantley, New York Times, September 17, 2004
Other reviews: Reviews Gate
Production details:
Related links: EP also performed in a Radio 4 dramatisation of The Woman in White. Details here.
Gallery:
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