17 December  1992 - 30 January 1993

THE MOONSTONE

by Wilkie Collins

newly adapted by James Maxwell

Sponsored by Manchester Airport

Gautam HARMAGE SINGH KALIRAI
Kali Das CHOOK SIBTAIN
Shri Kant GARY PILLAI
Boy GERAINT BENBOW/MATTHEW KENNEDY
Drummer GURSEVAK SINGH
Gabriel Betteredge GEORGE MALPAS
Rosanna Spearman, Secretary JANE BELSHAW
Franklin Blake PETER HAMILTON DYER
Rachel Verinder ANNA NILAND
Lady Verinder JOAN BLACKHAM
Godfrey Ablewhite ALEX HARDY
Dr Candy, Fisherman, Man in an Inn JOHN SOUTHWORTH
Drusilla Clack HELEN ATKINSON WOOD
Gerald Murthwaite, Landlord ROBIN DALGLISH
Sergeant Cuff STRUAN RODGER
Fisherman, Septimus Luker JAMES MASTERS
Ezra Jennings, A Drunk RAAD RAWI

Director JAMES MAXWELL
Set Designer DAVID MILLARD
Costume Designer TOM RAND
Lighting VINCE HERBERT
Sound ALASTAIR GOOLDEN
Music CHRIS MONKS
assisted by DIANE ADDERLEY
Assistant Director JAKE LUSHINGTON
Circus Tricks JAMES MACPHERSON
Fights RENNY KRUPINSKI

"A quaint old gem with new sparkle...it is no flop this time round - not with the flawlessly dressed and lovingly detailed production given here. Nor with the constant eye-popping eruption on stage of a troupe of dusky dancers, acrobats, fire-eaters and stilt-walkers."
Gerry Dempsey Daily Express

" 1The acting area of this theatre-in-the-round rotates, as it were with the tide, and a huge cloth is drawn into eddies, dunes and bubbles representing the quicksand...it is a Victorian evening of substance, and the visual image of the shivering sands will haunt me for a long time."
Michael Schmidt The Daily Telegraph