Jermyn Street Theatre has introduced the total forged of The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! by Peepolykus co-artistic director John Nicholson.
Joining the beforehand introduced Call The Midwife star Jennifer Kirby within the title function, might be an ensemble of three – Sam Alexander (The Homecoming – Bath Theatre Royal, Cat On A Hot Tin Roof – English Touring Theatre), Alistair Cope (People Places and Things – National Theatre/Headlong, The Sound of Heavy Rain – Paines Plough) and Dennis Herdman (The Play What I Wrote – Birmingham Rep / David Pugh Associates, Around The World in Eighty Days – Kenny Wax Productions). Together, they are going to play a wealthy array of different characters on this irreverent and uproarious tackle Gustave Flaubert’s celebrated 1856 novel. The manufacturing runs from 17 November to 17 December.
“Don’t you think the world looks different this morning?”
Emma Bovary is bored. She’s bored along with her boring physician husband, bored along with her boring provincial village, and bored along with her function as a dutiful spouse in (boring) nineteenth-century France. But Emma reads novels. Lots of novels. And in novels, life is significantly extra riotous… In Jermyn Street Theatre’s Christmas manufacturing, a small forged of actors battle hilarious mishaps and misbehaving props to inform the (massively) tragic story of Madame Bovary.
When his seminal work was first printed in mid-nineteenth century France, Flaubert was prosecuted for obsecenity. Now this scandalous chronicle of marital breakdown and home tragedy is hailed as the most effective novels ever written. Orginally written for Peepolykus and beforehand staged in Liverpool and Bristol, John Nicholson’s adaptation employs his trademark ridiculous and anarchic humour to stage this basic novel as a breakneck comical romp.
Director, Marieke Audsley makes her Jermyn Street Theatre debut, while Nicholson returns to the theatre following the staging of his smash hit The Hound of the Baskervilles there in 2017.