archive Spring 1998

29 January – 21 February
Hard Times
by Charles Dickens
adapted by Stephen Jeffreys

Dickens’ classic Victorian tale brings together a wealth of characters from the Grandiose Mr Gradgrind to the Bombastic Mr Bounderby, in this story of a sister’s misguided, but undying love for her selfish and callous brother.

Artistic Credits

Director: Bob Carlton
Designer: Dinah England
Lighting Designer: Peter Abery

Cast

Mrs Gradgrind/Emma Gordon/Chair Women/Mrs Sparsit/Rachael: Ruth Alexander
Gradgrind/Waiter/Slackbridge: Chris MacDonnell
Sissy/Mrs Peglar/Mary Stokes: Nicola Dawn
Bounderby/Bitzer: Stephen Thiebault
Louisa/Mrs Blackpool: Liz Marsh
Tom/Sleary/Stephen Blackpool/Harthouse: Steve Edwin