One of the greatest love stories of English literature. The beautiful invalid Elizabeth Barrett lives under the despotic rule of her Victorian father Edward Moulton Barrett. Her one great passion and means of escape is writing poetry, to which she devotes a large part of her days. Then she makes the acquaintance of dashing fellow poet Robert Browning, who literally sweeps her off her feet. Robert asks for Elizabeth's hand in marriage, but Edward refuses to allow it. Elizabeth must battle her father for the right to live her own life. The scene is set for a titanic struggle for the hearts and minds of England's greatest poets....T0192624466Part passionate love story, part a struggle for the heart and mind of one of England's leading female poets, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, in the hands of Trestle, becomes an off beat and haunting production about an insular family slowly falling apart. The relationship between Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning gave rise to some of the great poetry of the Victorian era. But the recent discovery of letters and diaries, together with Margaret Forster's biography of Elizabeth, has expanded and contradicted the conventional view of her character and her relationships with her domineering father and her passionate lover. Trestle's interpretation of Besier's play is both radical and highly theatrical, building on the text with layers of imagery and narrative gleaned from the biography. Developed over months of workshops with a new ensemble of actors, the production combines an emotionally charged and physical style of acting with the use of masks and music.Company Trestle Theatre Company. | |
| 3 Nov 00 | The Radlett Centre, Radlett :: V1098 listing details L0473714990 |
| 13 Oct 00 | Regal Centre, Worksop :: V466 listing details L0353377091 |
| 11 Oct 00 to 12 Oct 00 | Gulbenkian Arts Centre, Canterbury :: V673 listing details L1360025972 |
| 10 Oct 00 | The Hawth, Crawley :: V720 listing details L1278300535 |
| 6 Oct 00 to 7 Oct 00 | mac birmingham - Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham :: V146 listing details L01243619171 |
| 6 Oct 00 to 7 Oct 00 | mac birmingham - Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham :: V146 listing details L320004572 |
| 27 Sep 00 | Burnley Mechanics, Burnley :: V519 listing details L709142962 |
| 12 Sep 00 to 21 Sep 00 | Pleasance, Inner London :: V276 listing details L0831789442 |
| 31 Mar 00 to 1 Apr 00 | University of Bedfordshire Theatre (formerly the Bowen West Theatre), Bedford :: V16 listing details L599716007 |
| 30 Mar 00 | Castle Theatre, Wellingborough :: V465 listing details L0464247726 |
| 28 Mar 00 to 29 Mar 00 | Stamford Arts Centre, Stamford :: V446 listing details L0210841346 |
| 24 Mar 00 to 25 Mar 00 | Bryanston Arts Centre, Blandford Forum :: V913 listing details L245016593 |
| 22 Mar 00 to 23 Mar 00 | Merlin Theatre, Frome :: V916 listing details L1979441744 |
| 18 Mar 00 | The Point, Eastleigh :: V1114 listing details L0413804960 |
| 16 Mar 00 to 17 Mar 00 | Trinity Theatre and Arts Centre, Tunbridge Wells :: V691 listing details L1726501867 |
| 14 Mar 00 to 15 Mar 00 | Gardner Arts Centre, Brighton :: V653 listing details L1612083154 |
| 7 Mar 00 to 11 Mar 00 | Jersey Arts Centre, St Helier :: V868 listing details L2100542133 |
| 3 Mar 00 | South Hill Park Arts Centre, Wilde Theatre, Bracknell :: V731 listing details L1725426180 |
| 2 Mar 00 | Unity Theatre, Liverpool :: V539 listing details L2129588629 |
| 29 Feb 00 | Darlington Arts Centre, Darlington :: V563 listing details L0570595927 |
| 25 Feb 00 to 26 Feb 00 | Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal :: V6 listing details L602610685 |
| 23 Feb 00 | Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston :: V440 listing details L847392109 |
| 15 Feb 00 to 17 Feb 00 | Stantonbury Theatre, Milton Keynes :: V752 listing details L059523456 |
| 11 Feb 00 to 12 Feb 00 | Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmunds :: V76 listing details L01531154942 |
| 9 Feb 00 to 10 Feb 00 | Playhouse, Norwich :: V69 listing details L1011286915 |
| 7 Feb 00 | Blackpool Grand Theatre, Blackpool :: V518 listing details L068522650 |
| 21 Jan 00 to 22 Jan 00 | The Maltings Theatre (formely Maltings Arts Centre), St Albans :: V52 listing details L584490777 |
T720004647Company Actors Company. Design Sue Willmington. Design Adrian Linford. Director Clifford Milner. Performer Richard Sleath. Performer Ian Chivers. Performer Mark Rogers. Performer Paul Cogswell. Performer Keir Howeld. Performer Dominic Wilson. Performer Kate Woodward. Performer Jazmin Dervish. Performer Lucy Cocking. Performer Andy Snowball. Performer Panos Panayi. Performer Roger Nicholls. Performer Sunna Hosking. Performer Lesley Lightfoot. | |
| 28 Sep 00 to 1 Nov 00 | Jermyn Street Theatre, Inner London :: V207 listing details L55250046 |
