'Casterbridge' - A New Hardy Adaptation at The Space

By Not-The-Way-Forward Productions

Premiere - 5th to 9th April

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'Casterbridge' is a modern adaptation of Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge with an all-female cast and a new angle on a classic story.

When she was 21, Mary Henchard stood up in a bar and offered to sell her husband to the highest bidder. She has spent the last twenty years trying to recover.

When she was 21, Dearbhla Farfrae bought a one-way ticket to America. The night before she left, she did a good turn by an eccentric financier, and got the luckiest break of her life. Now a middle-aged millionaire, Mary Henchard thinks she has found a protegee to save her business. She has really found the woman who will ruin her life.

Not The Way Forward Productions’ reimagining of Thomas Hardy’s tragic novel charts the lives of two women growing up, growing old and growing into obsessive rivalry. With a set made out of cardboard, and a soundtrack of 00s hits, step into the high-pressure world of the London financial district, and watch this classic story brought to (modern) life.

“I don’t see why people who have got husbands and wives and don’t want them shouldn’t sell them to those in need of such articles – I’d sell mine this minute if anybody would buy him!”

Book tickets here: https://space.org.uk/events/Casterbridge

Use the code LITLOVER4 to receive a £4 discount.

For any queries, please email: ana.notthewayforwardproductions@outlook.com

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