Chichester Festival Theatre will stage Liberty � a play set in the French Revolution � fresh from its world premiere at Shakespeare�s Globe Theatre.
Liberty will be the first Globe main stage production to tour the UK. Set in Paris, 1793 when the French Revolution is four years old, ambitious young artist, Gamelin discovers he has been made a magistrate for the ruling forces. Gamelin believes the Revolution divides the world between good and evil, and he sees conspiracy and corruption everywhere. How strong will the ties of love and friendship prove when he is given power over life and death, as the new order plunges with terrifying momentum from high idealism to bloody mob rule?
The play tells the story of how a group of friends are pulled apart by mass
hysteria, and how idealism is corrupted and degraded by fear within a
violent state dictatorship. Private jealousies and public fears, old
alliances and new ideologies, panic legislation and political
correctness all combine in a play whose themes are as relevant to contemporary British society as to the French Revolution. Liberty is an adaptation of Anatole
France�s 1912 novel Les Dieux ont Soif.
Writer Glyn Maxwell is an award winning poet, playwright and novelist.
He brings a colloquial verse of great fluidity and immediacy to a story
that is both fresh and relevant. His play Lifeblood was voted best play
by the British Theatre Guide in 2004 and led the producer, Sue Scott
Davison to create Lifeblood Theatre Company which champions new writing.
The Liberty cast includes Belinda Lang and David Sturzaker, and Liberty
is directed by Guy Retallack. The production is designed by Ti Green,
with music by William Lyons - one of the UK�s leading early music
specialists and a founder member of acclaimed early music ensemble, The
Dufay Collective.
Liberty is at the Minerva Theatre, Chichester on Tuesday 11 � Saturday
15 November at 7.45pm
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