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Tess of the D'urbervilles

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A play by Ronald Gow based on the Wessex story by Thomas Hardy.
From the Theatre Royal, Bristol.

Act 1
The Manor House at Wellbridge, New Year's Eve, 1870
Act 2
Sc.1: Tess's cottage. Sixteen months later
Sc.2: The Herons, Sandbourne. Two months later
Sc.3: A railway station. One hour later
Act 3
Sc.1: The house in the forest. A week later
Sc.2: Stonehenge. Two days later
Special performance before an invited audience by courtesy of the Old Vic Trust Limited.

Contributors

Author:
Ronald Gow
Based on the novel by:
Thomas Hardy
Scenery designed and executed by:
Patrick Robertson
Stage Director:
Nat Brenner
Stage Production:
Owen Reed
Presented for television by:
Michael Henderson
Mrs. Crumb:
Ethel Coleridge
Jonathan Kail:
George Holloway
Angel Clare:
Donald Eccles
Tess Durbeyfield:
Barbara Jefford
Mrs. Durbeyfield:
Everley Gregg
Liza-Lu:
Hilda Schroder
Alec d'Urberville:
Michael Aldridge
Mrs. Brooks:
Edith Manvell
A porter:
Peter Nichols
A man:
Lewis Gedge

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