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The Voysey Inheritance
by Harley Granville Barker
Edward's highly principled world upturns when his father reveals that he has been illegally speculating with clients' money. To make matters worse, he soon discovers his large, scandal-fearing family would perpetuate the crime rather than risk public dishonour.
Of course it's pleasant and comfortable to keep within the law… then the law will look after you. Otherwise you have to look pretty sharp after yourself. You have to cultivate your own sense of right and wrong… deal with your own justice. But that makes a bigger man of you, let me tell you.This magnificently observed, hugely enjoyable portrait of an upper-middle-class family was written by the father of 20th-century British theatre, Harley Granville Barker, ten years before the first world war finally sent old values flying.
Cast credits:
Company : David Baron
Honor Voysey : Lucy Briers
Mrs Hugh Voysey (Beatrice) : Kirsty Bushell
Ethel Voysey (to 7 June) : Isabella Calthorpe
Alice Maitland (to 7 June) : Nancy Carroll
Alice Maitland (from 10 August) : Claire Cox
Company : Max Dowler
Denis Tregoning (from 10 August) : William Ellis
Company : Christopher Gilling
Mr Voysey : Julian Glover
Hugh Voysey : Martin Hutson
Mrs Voysey (from 10 August) : Helen Lindsay
Mrs Voysey (to 7 June) : Doreen Mantle
Mrs Booth Voysey (Emily) : Sarah Mowat
Mr Booth : John Nettleton
Peacey : John Normington
Company : Sinead O'Keeffe
Ethel Voysey (from 10 August) : Claudia Renton
Mary : Anna Steel
The Rev. Evan Colpus : Roger Swaine
Trenchard Voysey : Mark Tandy
Denis Tregoning (to 7 June) : Joseph Thompson
Edward Voysey : Dominic West
Phoebe : Julia West
Major Booth Voysey : Andrew Woodall
Christopher Voysey : Cameron Cleaver / David Perkins
Production credits:
Director: Peter Gill
Designer: Alison Chitty
Lighting Designer: Hartley T A Kemp
Music: Terry Davies
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The Voysey Inheritance finished on: 30 September 2006
