Casterbridge
12th, 13th & 14th 4.30pm £9/7
When she was 21, Mary Henchard stood up in a bar and offered to sell her husband to the highest bidder. She has spent the last twenty years trying to recover.
When she was 21, Dearbhla Farfrae bought a one-way ticket to America. The night before she left, she did a good turn by an eccentric financier, and got the luckiest break of her life. Now a middle-aged millionaire, Mary Henchard thinks she has found a protegee to save her business. She has really found the woman who will destroy her.
With an all-female cast and a soundtrack of 00s hits, step into the high-pressure world of the London financial district, and experience Thomas Hardy’s greatest tragic novel as you’ve never seen it before.