Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

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Marcel Proust’s allegorical contemplation on time, memory, art and love.

Marcel Proust’s allegorical contemplation on time, memory, art and love begins with a vivid account of childhood summers spent in the French countryside of Combray.

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

It begins with the vivid memory of a young boy’s childhood summers spent in the French countryside of Combray and the long nights waiting for his mother to come and kiss him goodnight. The young Marcel takes beautiful walks with his parents and has his first sighting of the young Gilberte Swann, daughter of family friend and well-connected Parisian Dandy, Charles Swann and his wife, the courtesan and seductress Odette de Crecy.


Cast:
MARCEL (narrator)	………Derek Jacobi
FATHER ………Oliver Cotton		
FRANCOISE ………Susan Brown				
MOTHER ………Sylvestra le Touzel	
GRANDMOTHER ………Joanna David		
TANTE LEONIE/MARQUISE DE SAINTE EUVERTE. ……Pamela Miles		
GILBERTE (girl) ………Mary Glen					
ODETTE  ..............Bessie Carter		
SWANN ………… Paterson Joseph			
MADEMOISELLE VINTEUIL/PROSTITUTE .... Charlotte Blandford				 
THE DUCHESS DE GUERMANTES (Oriane) …………… Fenella Woolgar		
MADAME DE VERDURIN ………Frances Barber				
PIANIST …………Daniel Whitlam				
DOCTOR COTTARD	…………Lloyd Hutchinson				
MARCEL(boy) ………Isaac Watts					
MONSIEUR VERDURIN …………Jeff Rawle
FEMALE FRIEND/ANOTHER PROSTITUTE……….Phoebe Marshall
ELSTIR BICHE ……… Daniel Flynn	
MADAME DE GALLARDON …………Christine Kavanagh	
BRICHOT …………Hugh Ross
FORCHEVILLE ………Nicholas Gleaves
REMI …………Nicholas Armfield
SANIETTE …………Roger Watkins
SERVANT ………Finlay Paul	

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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