Details

Set in eighteenth-century England: a world of cruelty, injustice and iron privilege. Lord Are is forced by poverty into an unwanted marriage with the daughter of a wealthy mineowner. One morning, during breakfast, he commits a bizarre and fatal crime. He seeks to pin responsibility for it on his guileless, illiterate footman, Bob Hedges. A battle ensues between Bob's black, justice-hungry wife and the fortified privilege of the ruling classes.

Cast/Performers

Madeline Appiah, Robert East, Beverley Klein (Madeline Appiah), Mark Lockyer (Lord Are), Dorothea Myer-Bennett, Michael Schaeffer, Mark Stobbart

Creatives/Company

Author: Edward Bond
Company: Headlong Theatre (previously known as Oxford Stage Company and in association with Bristol Old Vic)
Director: Rupert Goold
Design: Colin Richmond
Lighting: Oliver Fenwick
Music: Adam Cork