See brand new images from Nina Raine’s sweeping two-part adaptation of George Eliot’s Middlemarch, now playing at the RSC. Directed by Jeremy Herrin, the new adaptation runs at the RSC until 16 January 2027.
The Royal Shakespeare Company has released brand new images of their new adaptation of Middlemarch, George Eliot’s expansive study of provincial life. Adapted by Nina Raine (Consent, Tribes, Tiger Country) and directed by Olivier Award-winning Jeremy Herrin (Every Brilliant Thing, Wolf Hall Trilogy), the sweeping sweeping story is told in two parts.
Raine’s adaptation brings George Eliot into the characters’ world as narrator, confidante and counsellor as the community of Middlemarch confronts the dawning of social progress and political reform, embraced by some and opposed by others.
The two-part production runs until Saturday 16 January 2027.
Photos: Middlemarch arrives at the RSC
The cast and creative team
The cast and creative team behind this exciting new adaptation includes:
- Nia Towle as Dorothea Brooke
- Andrew Richardson as Tertius Lydgate
- Emma McDonald as Rosamond Vincy
- Rory Alexander as Will Ladislaw
- Ebenezer Gyau as Fred Vincy
- Ian Drysdale as Mr Casaubon / Caleb Garth
- Amanda Root as George Eliot / Mrs Cadwallader
- Lizzie Annis as Celia Brooke / Mary Garth
- Gunnar Cauthery as Mr Farebrother / Sir James Chettam
- John Hodgkinson as Mr Bulstrode / Borthrop Trumbull
- Peter Forbes as Mr Brooke / Featherstone / Raffles
- Penny Layden as Mrs Bulstrode / Mrs Garth / Lady Chettam / Mrs Waule / Mrs Dollop / Tantripp
- Anita Reynolds as Mrs Vincy / Mrs Mawmsey / Mrs Abel
- Dave Fishley as Mayor Vincy / Bambridge / Thesiger
- Mackenzie Heynes as Joshua Rigg / Mr Hawley
- Steven Dykes as Dr Wrench
- Emma Bown as Mrs Hackbutt / Clerk
- Molly Watton Williams as Martha / Jonas
Joining Jeremy Herrin and Nina Raine on the creative team are set and costume designer Grace Smart, lighting designer Ben Jacobs, composer Paul Englishby, sound designer Nicola T. Chang, movement director Lucy Cullingford, dramaturg Rebecca Latham, casting directors Charlotte Sutton CDG and Christopher Worrall CDG, intimacy director Clare Foster, music director Nathan Feeney, voice and dialect coach Emma Woodvine and associate director Molly Stacey.
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