Obsessed with protecting his daughter – and marrying her off to anyone with substance. Apoplectic, impulsive and a blustering country squire, not too many brain cells, with thick, almost unintelligible country accent, thankfully written phonetically in the script. Conniving and quietly ruthless.Ī real large visual character. Squire Allworthy’s heir and Tom’s foster brother, eighteen months younger, full of his own importance and exceedingly jealous of Tom. Non-speaking, but important visual role in opening mime sequence.Ī rather quirky, over-zealous, pompous schoolmaster, keen on capital punishment and hanky-panky. Tom’s foster father.īridget Allworthy and Betty - Linda RussellĪllworthy’s spinster sister, who ‘adopts’ Tom and later marries a Captain Blifil. The local Magistrate, genial, a pillar of the community, firm but fair in all matters.
Must be a confident actor, as a lot of his dialogue is direct address to audience, with ability to drop in and out of scenes. Our chosen venue, the Rhoda McGaw Theatre, in Woking, with its generous proscenium width and raked auditorium will be eminently suitable for this flowing production, enhanced by an ambitious setting and adventurous lighting.Ī gallery of photographs from the production can be found at courtesy of photographer Alan BostockĪ charming, dashing and naive victim of circumstances, almost beyond his control? Jack the lad! Likes the ladies and is easily seduced.
The play was originally commissioned for smaller theatres and The Thorndike Theatre at Leatherhead was one envisaged for its performance. The themes of kindly villainy and the solid certainty of social order give this Georgian romp its firm framework. He felt that far more evil lies in hypocrisy, particularly self-deceit. However, Fielding’s novel also had some serious themes, most importantly that straightforward, generous vices are not necessarily the worst ones. Based on the classic novel by Henry Fielding, this stage version of “ Tom Jones” has been described as ‘a rich, ripe and bawdy romp’, but for all its colourful and coarse glory, it is a different kind of period drama, with fast-moving action and larger than life characters.
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