English, Department of
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Date of this Version
2010
Document Type
Article
Citation
The George Eliot Review 41 (2010)
Abstract
A dramatized version of Daniel Deranda scripted by John Cooper was produced by the Traffic of the Stage Company at the Upstairs at the Gatehouse Theatre in Highgate in May. Directed by Harry Meacher, it had a cast of seventeen actors who between them played forty-one different parts. The audience sat on three sides of the acting area (the floor of which was patterned like a giant roulette wheel) and the actors, when not directly engaged in the action, moved to the edges of this space where they would, when appropriate (i.e., when the scene was a party or some other gathering) continue acting in dumb show. This was sometimes distracting but in general had a positive effect in that it helped to streamline the action of the play and kept us mindful of the social world inhabited by its characters.
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