Taking place in the years leading up to the First Reform Bill of 1832, Middlemarch explores nearly every subject of concern to modern life: art, religion, science, politics, self, society, human relationships. Among her characters are some of the most remarkable portraits in English literature: Dorothea Brooke, the heroine, idealistic but naive; Rosamond Vincy, beautiful and egoistic: Edward Casaubon, the dry-as-dust scholar: Tertius Lydgate, the brilliant but morally-flawed physician: the passionate artist Will Ladislaw: and Fred Vincey and Mary Garth, childhood sweethearts whose charming courtship is one of the many humorous elements in the novel's rich comic vein.
CAST AND CREDITS:
The Narrator, George Eliot - Juliet Aubrey
Dorothea - Olivia Vinall
Edward Casaubon - Charles Edwards
Dr. Lydgate - John Heffernan
Will Ladislaw - Joseph Quinn
Arthur Brooke/Caleb Garth/Mr. Trumball - Neil McCaul
Sir James Chettam - Hugh Skinner
Rev. Farebrother - Miles Jupp
Nicholas Bulstrode - Adrian Scarborough
Celia - Lucy Reynolds
Peter Featherstone/Standish/John Raffles - Clive Hayward
Fred Vincy/Auction bidder - Will Kirk
Rosamond - Laura Christy
Mr. Vincy/Mr. Bambridge - Rick Warden
Mrs. Cadwallader/Mrs. Plymdale - Jessica Turner
Adolf Naumann/Barman - Adam Courting
Dr. Hawley/Clerk - Greg Jones
Servant/Mrs. Abel - Sinead MacInnes
Tantripp/Mary Garth - Scarlett Courtney
Mrs. Garth - Alison Belbin
Letty Garth - Grace Doherty
Farmer/Mr. Hopkins - Ikky Elyas
Tertius Lydgate - John Heffernan
Harriet Bulstrode - Rosie Cavaliero
Mrs. Vincy/Farebrother's aunt - Heather Craney
Written by George Eliot
Adapted by Katie Hims
Directed by Jessica Dromgoole and Tracey Neale
RUNNING TIME ⇒ 4hrs. and 57mins.
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