Theatre
In 2010 the show was adapted into a theatre play that toured the UK. The cast included:
- Rachel Bell as Hyacinth
- Gareth Hale as Onslow
- David Janson as Mr Edward Milton, a new character created for the stage show (Janson had previously appeared in the TV show as The Postman)
- Steven Pinder as Emmet
- Kim Hartman as Elizabeth
- Rachel Bell as Rose
The character Richard (Hyacinth's husband – a main character in the original show) is frequently referred to (Hyacinth addresses to him off-stage, talks to him on the phone etc.), but does not actually appear in the production.
The main plot of the show revolves around Emmet directing a play at the local village hall, when Hyacinth is cast in the play's leading role disaster is in the making...
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Famous quotes containing the word theatre:
“Our instructed vagrancy, which has hardly time to linger by the hedgerows, but runs away early to the tropics, and is at home with palms and banyans—which is nourished on books of travel, and stretches the theatre of its imagination to the Zambesi.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“To save the theatre, the theatre must be destroyed, the actors and actresses must all die of the plague. They poison the air, they make art impossible. It is not drama that they play, but pieces for the theatre. We should return to the Greeks, play in the open air: the drama dies of stalls and boxes and evening dress, and people who come to digest their dinner.”
—Eleonora Duse (1858–1924)
“Art is for [the Irish] inseparable from artifice: of that, the theatre is the home. Possibly, it was England made me a novelist.”
—Elizabeth Bowen (1899–1973)