Fresh from the success of their adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd, Theatreworks present another of Thomas Hardy’s classics at Shrewsbury’s Music Hall this Saturday.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles is rooted in Hardy’s atmospheric ‘Wessex’ and uses pastoral comedy, dance, music and period detail to skilfully recreate the story of Tess – a maiden who falls victim to male lust and social hypocrisy.
Opening on a glorious spring day, the story begins with young Tess setting out, on her drunken father’s behalf, to claim ‘kinship’ with the aristocratic D’urbervilles.
Inexperienced, unworldly Tess is offered work on the D’ Urberville estate and reluctantly makes her home there.
She becomes entwined with ‘bounder’ Alec D’Urberville but fate soon moves against the innocent Tess and she begins another journey, along an almost impassable road, thick with brambles and pot-holes, one that eventually leads the dairy maid to the brooding ruins of Stonehenge – symbolic site of pagan sacrifice.
The performance takes place at 7.30 pm at The Music Hall, Shrewsbury on Saturday September 27. Tickets are priced £12.
For more information call the box office on (01743) 281281 or visit www.musichall.co.uk
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