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Geoffrey Beevers

GEOFFREY BEEVERS

  (1941 - )
Nationality:    British
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Literary Agent:    Elspeth Cochrane Agency, UK  

Geoffrey Beevers (born 1941, is a British actor who has appeared in many different television roles. Beevers has worked extensively at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond upon Thames, both as an actor (including the title role in Jules Romain's Doctor Knock, 1994); and as an adaptor/director of George Eliot's novel Adam Bede(February 1990), for which he won a Time Out Award, and Balzac's Pere Goriot (February 1994).

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below is a list of Geoffrey Beevers's plays - click on a Play Title for more information

         Adam Bede         Middlemarch Trilogy, The         Pere Goriot         Silas Marner         Story Of Jude, The

Adam Bede

Synopsis:
In this rich and humorous portrayal of eighteenth-century rural life, Geoffrey Beevers remains true to George eliot's original novel. adam Bede, a young carpenter of integrity, loves Hetty Sorrel, a pretty and self-centred dairymaid, who herself dreams of arthur Donnithome, the young squire. arthur cannot resist seducing her, and their passion has tragic consequences for the whole community.

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novel George eliot

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Samuel French, London, 1990   -

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  3            Female:  3            Other:  up to 30 characters

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Middlemarch Trilogy, The

Middlemarch Trilogy, The
George Eliot's Middlemarch is peopled with some of literature's most memorable characters. In Geoffrey Beevers' new dramatisation, all three interconnected plays can be performed as a trilogy, but each play can also stand on its own, telling the story of Middlemarch from the perspective of a different set of characters: from county, town and countryside. In Dorothea's Story, set among the big houses of the local aristocracy of Middlemarch, young, intelligent Dorothea is so enamoured of the pedantic Reverend Casaubon that she marries him, much to everyone's disbelief. But her friendship with Casaubon's young cousin Will Ladislaw arouses suspicions in her new husband, who will do anything to thwart their mutual affection. In The Doctor's Story, set in the town of Middlemarch itself, where everyone wants to know each other's business, idealistic Dr Lydgate arrives in Middlemarch determined to achieve great things. He catches the eye of the Mayor's beautiful, self-centred daughter Rosamond but is torn between ambition and loyalty as he is drawn into an alliance with a corrupt banker. In the poignant but light-hearted Fred and Mary's Story, set amongst hard-working countryfolk, Fred is trying to please his parents and become a country gentleman, but his childhood sweetheart Mary will have none of it.

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Three plays based on George Eliot's classic novel, which can be performed as a trilogy or as standalone pieces.

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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  8            Female:  5            Other:  with doubling

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Pere Goriot

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adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Silas Marner

Synopsis:
story of the reclusive miser whose life is transformed by a young girl

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novel George eliot

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Samuel French, London,    -

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Genre:
adaptation

Parts:
Male:  15            Female:  8            Other:  -

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Story Of Jude, The

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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