Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time

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Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time: Episode 1

Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time

Episode 1

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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 .……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……….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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