Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation from the French of Marcel Proust’s allegorical reflection on time, memory, art and love.

After being reunited with Albertine Simonet in Balbec, Marcel proposes. They return to Paris to live in his apartment, but the relationship is complex and Marcel begins to mistrust her, regularly allowing his jealousy to get the better of him.

Meanwhile, the Baron de Charlus is helping to plan the marriage of young composer, Morel, to Jupien’s niece, but how successful can this marriage be?

Madame Verdurin agrees to host a soiree with guests invited by the Baron de Charlus, but his high-handed manner will cost him dear by the end of the evening.

Cast:
MARCEL (narrator) ………Derek Jacobi
MARCEL …………Blake Ritson
FRANCOISE………. Susan Brown
DUCHESS DE GUERMANTES (ORIANE) ………Fenella Woolgar
MADAME VERDURIN …………Frances Barber
MONSIEUR VERDURIN …………Jeff Rawle
BARON DE CHARLUS …………. Simon Russell Beale
BRICHOT…………Hugh Ross
ALBERTINE …………Hattie Morahan
MOREL ……………Tom Glenister
SANIETTE....……… Roger Watkins
SKI…….. Nicholas Armfield
SERVANT……………Daniel Whitlam
MONSIEUR DE BREAUTE …………Daniel Flynn
QUEEN OF NAPLES.………Christine Kavanagh
ANDREE ……………Georgina Beedle

Translated and adapted from the French by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Produced and directed by Celia de Wolff
Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Tombling
Recording and Sound Design: David Chilton and Lucinda Mason Brown
Executive Producer: Peter Hoare

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