“My dear fellow, nobody’s a mistake.
He don’t exist.
Nobody’s nobody.
Everybody’s somebody.”
A new production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre to mark the 150th anniversary of T. W. Robertson’s 1867 comedy, Caste – and its first UK production in over 20 years.
1867. George D’Alroy is a soldier and the son of French nobility. Esther Eccles is a beautiful ballet dancer from a poor family. When the two fall in love, two very different families are brought together.
After George leaves to serve in India, Esther must deal with a drunken father, a sister with a fierce temper and a terrifying mother-in-law. Not knowing whether she will ever see her love again, Esther must confront the class prejudices of Victorian England, whilst coping with the chaos created by her increasingly exasperating family members…
Widely considered both as T. W. Robertson’s masterpiece and a ground-breaking milestone in British theatre, Caste was described by George Bernard Shaw as “epoch making”, whilst W. S. Gilbert said it “pointed the way for a whole new movement”, and when William Archer and Harley Granville Barker planned the programme for their proposed National Theatre, they were agreed that the mid-Victorian period should be "inevitably represented by its one masterpiece, Caste.”
Finborough Theatre in Earl's Court, London on April 2-18 (Sun, Mon and Tue matinee).
Sunday and Monday evenings at 7.30pm.
Tuesday matinees at 2.00pm.
Performance Length: Approximately 90 minutes with no interval.
Tickets £18, £16 concessions
All the details for the show can be found here: http://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2017/caste.php
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