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

Marcel is rejected by Gilberte Swann in Paris and we move on a few years, as Marcel visits the seaside town of Balbec with his Grandmother and stays at the Grand Hotel. It is here that he meets three people who will have a significant and lasting impact on his life - Albertine Simonet, Robert de Saint Loup and the Baron de Charlus.

Cast:
MARCEL (narrator) ………Derek Jacobi
MARCEL ………Blake Ritson
MOTHER …………Sylvestra le Touzel
GRANDMOTHER …………Joanna David
ELSTIR (BICHE) …………Daniel Flynn
ROBERT DE SAINT LOUP ………Kyle Soller
BARON DE CHARLUS ………… Simon Russell Beale
ALBERTINE …………. Hattie Morahan
ANDREE ………… Georgina Beedle
MADAME DE VILLEPARISIS ………. Serena Evans
MANAGER………… Finlay Paul
LIFT BOY…..……… Daniel Whitlam
OTHER VOICES………Nicholas Armfield, Phoebe Marshall

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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