Edmond Dantes DAVID THRELFALL
Gerard de Villefort SIMON TYRRELL
Danglars JAMES SAXON
Fernand Mondego MALCOLM JAMIESON
Gaspard Caderousse, Doctor dÕAvrigny,
President of the Assizes JOHN CORDING
Abbe Faria, Marquis de Saint-Meran COLIN PROCKTER
Vicomte Albert de Morcerf, Peppino IAN PEPPERELL
Maximilien Morrel DANIEL TOBIAS
Andrea Cavalcanti JONATHAN WEIR
M. Lucien Debray, Luigi Vampa, Comte deSalvieux, Prison Doctor MICHAEL GOULD
M. Beauchamp, Old M. Morrel, M. de Boville TERRY TAPLIN
Ali CLIVE LLEWELLYN
Old Cavalcanti, Old Dantes, President of Peers RAY LLEWELLYN
Bertuccio, Comte de Chateau-Renaud, Fencing Instructor, Speaking Peer JOHN LANGFORD
Creatures LIAM McKENNA
JOHN KILLORAN
LIAM STEEL
Mercedes BRANA BAJIC
Mlle. Valentine, Mlle. Renee de Saint-Meran SANDRA REINTON
Mlle Eugenie Danglars KATY CARMICHAEL
Baronne Hermine Danglars NAOMI BUCH
Haydee NATASCHA McELHONE
Marquise de Saint-Meran, Cornelie MARIE COLLETT
Heloise, La Carconte GERALDINE ALEXANDER
Edouard de Villefort JONATHAN BETHELL/EDWARD
BLUM/MICHAEL MOORE

Director BRAHAM MURRAY
Designer SIMON HIGLETT
Lighting VINCE HERBERT
Sound PHILIP CLIFFORD
Composer CHRIS MONKS
Choreographer FERGUS EARLY
Aerial & Tumbling Specialist EMIL WOLK
Dialect Coach PENNY DYER
Fight Director MALCOLM RANSON
Assistant Director KATHERINE BOND
Movement Associate LIAM STEEL
Musical Director AKINTAYO AKINBODE
Musicians HEATHER CROSS
JAMES MUIR MORRISON
CAROLYN TREGASKIS

'...enthralling new adaptation at the Manchester Royal Exchange Theatre...directed by Braham Murray, there are two outstanding accomplishments. One is the use of the Royal Exchange stage; the other is the performance of David Threlfall as the Count. This is theatre in the round, but not of the conventional kind. There are galleries all round the stage as well. Simon Higlett's settings use the space and the height to the full...Threlfall's energy and stamina are prodigious...At his most unforgettable, he is standing erect in evening clothes with long black flowing hair: a Mephistopheles figure who can do good as well as evil...Nothing ever flags: neither the imagination, nor the playing.'
Malcolm Rutherford The Financial Times

'The determination of Braham Murray's production to take the novel on its own terms - to aim for maximum scale, colour, energy, duration - is admirable...there is excellent (and almost continuous) live music; there are real fireworks and explosions, incense and flaming torches; the scene-shifters are red-draped and veiled tumblers who enter walking on their hands or turning cartwheels, juggle the props offstage and then disappear turning somersaults, climbing girders into the galleries or nonchalantly grabbing a rope which pulls them vertically up into the flies. James Maxwell and Jonathan Hackett have filleted the novel's plot expertly so that its intricate logic is as clear as its sharply contrasted scene-changes, and Simon Higlett's design, appropriately, is both vivid and flexible...The acting...is first-rate...the cast as a whole is a very strong one. Outstandingly good is Colin Procktor...Much of it glitters, and some at least is pure gold.'
Grevel Lindop The Times Literary Supplement

'In Manchester, there were noisy scenes...as Mancunian David Threlfall took the stage and received ovations for his mesmerising performance in the title role of a production which came as close to grand opera as theatre can get...It is a thrilling event...'
Tim Richardson Country Life

'David Threlfall's performance as Edmond Dantes is a triumph and Braham Murray's arena staging spectacular.'
The Guardian