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Love & Madness
present
Hard Times
In this production Love&Madness takes the humour, drama and theatricality of Dickens' tale and gives it the fluid, physical staging that the company is known for.
With references to the industrial crises of the 70s, new controls on education in the 90s and the horrors wreaked by globalisation on vulnerable workers worldwide, we locate the story both then and now, asking whether we have made much progress since Dickens revealed the incompatability of the human spirit with the uncompromising logic of industry.
The result is a thought-provoking, colourful and entertaining performance that respects the original text, but approaches it with the wonder and creativity for which Dickens himself argues.
Hard Times Cast
Alan Charlesworth as Thomas Gradgrind
Robert Dugay as Josiah Bounderby
Jade Magri as Louisa Gradgrind
Jonny McPherson as James Harthouse
Pip Ripley as Sissy Jupe
Neil Sheppeck as Stephen Blackpool
Jane Stanton as Rachael
Ian Van Der Heyden as Tom Gradgrind
All other roles played by members of the company.
Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield: September 23rd - 25th 2004
Wyvern Theatre, Swindon: September 27th, 28th 2004
Roses Theatre, Tewkesbury: September 29th 2004
Queens Hall, Hexham: September 30th 2004
Guildhall Theatre, Derby: October 1st 2004
Bridge House Theatre, Warwick: October 2nd 2004
Norwich Playhouse: October 6th, 7th 2004
High Wycombe Town Hall: October 8th 2004
UCL Bloomsbury, London: October 11th - 15th 2004
Explosion! Gosport: October 16th 2004
Norden Farm Centre for the Arts, Maidenhead: October 19th 2004
Old Laundry Theatre, Bowness: October 20th, 21st 2004
Blackfriars Arts Centre, Boston: October 22nd 2004
Theatr Hafren, Newtown: October 23rd 2004
Brunton Theatre, Musselburgh: October 28th, 29th 2004
Garrison Theatre, Shetland Islands: November 1st, 2nd 2004
Carnegie Hall, Dunfermline: November 5th 2004
MacRobert Arts Centre, Stirling: November 7th 2004
Hexagon Theatre, Middlesbrough: November 9th 2004
Square Chapel Arts Centre, Halifax: November 10th 2004
Theatr Colwyn, Colwyn Bay: November 15th 2004
Theatr Ardudwy, Harlech: November 16th 2004
Aberystwyth Arts Centre: November 17th 2004
Taliesin Arts Centre, Swansea: November 18th, 19th 2004
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