Gormenghast

Corpus Christi College, February, 2012
Directed and adapted by Tara Isabella Burton. A co-production between Ba-Laylah and Reverend Productions.

A grotesque saga of murder and revolution - or the nightmarish fantasy of a troubled child? Join Titus Groan, Seventy-Seventh Earl of Groan, Lord of Gormenghast, on a disturbing and surreal journey into the past, as he remembers his childhood in Castle Gormenghast: a haunting palace stifled by centuries of ritual and repression - and threatened by the machinations of the amoral, ruthless kitchen boy Steerpike. Reality or fantasy? Memory or madness? Take the plunge into Gormenghast's labyrinthine depths - and make your choice.

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praise from reviewers

"From the vivid pageant of characters paraded last night - and the multiple scene changes - the running time of two and a half hours was tight...Peter Rhodes as Flay...brought a depth and sympathy to the role which extended beyond the character’s relatively brief appearances on stage....Jessica Law’s Fuschia was outstanding...Fuschia is an original - and so was Law’s performance...Francesca Petrizzio’s costumes were dazzling – Peake himself might have wished he had sketched them...Gormenghast came alive last night."
-Alison Boulton, DailyInfo

"the adaptation...creates something new out of the text...'Gormenghast' is an enticing, imaginative experiment"
-Karl Dando, Oxford Theatre Review, ****