The full cast has been announced for the RSC’s upcoming production of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, adapted by Nina Raine. The adaptation of Eliot’s study on provincial life will play in two parts.
Coming to the RSC this October is a stage adaptation of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, adapted by Nina Raine (Consent, Tribes, Tiger Country) and co-produced with Second Half Productions.
The production has today announced a cast that includes Nia Towle, Amanda Root, John Hodgkinson, Rory Alexander and Andrew Richardson.
Director Jeremy Herrin said: ‘George Eliot’s Middlemarch is an entertaining story full of great humanity, wisdom and wit. Nina Raine has distilled this epic beloved novel into a very beautiful play in two parts, which has attracted a great ensemble and creative team to the Swan.
I can’t wait to explore its many pertinent themes: family, marriage, love, purpose, religion, morality and more. Theatre is a great form for a story that luxuriates in how we are all essentially connected.’
The cast of Middlemarch
As announced today, the full company of Middlemarch will include:
- Nia Towle as Dorothea Brooke
- Amanda Root as George Eliot / Mrs Cadwallader
- Rory Alexander as Will Ladislaw
- Lizzie Annis as Celia Brooke / Mary Garth
- Gunnar Cauthery as Farebrother / Sir James Chettam
- Ian Drysdale as Mr Casaubon / Caleb Garth
- Dave Fishley as Mr Vincy / Bambridge / Powderell
- Peter Forbes as Mr Brooke / Featherstone / Raffles
- Ebenezer Gyau as Fred Vincy
- John Hodgkinson as Mr Bulstrode / Borthrop Trumbull
- Penny Layden as Mrs Bulstrode / Mrs Garth / Lady Chettam
- Emma McDonald as Rosamond Vincy
- Anita Reynolds as Mrs Vincy / Mrs Mawmsey / Mrs Abel
- Andrew Richardson as Tertius Lydgate)
The company will also include Emma Bown, Molly Watton Williams, Steven Dykes Mackenzie Heynes
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