Publisher Description
In this original adaptation of E.M. Forster’s novel, an encounter in Florence and an offer to exchange rooms brings George Emerson to the attention of Lucy Honeychurch. Their flirtation is cut short by Lucy’s chaperone, but when they meet again back home in England, Lucy must negotiate the demands of her station with the desires of her heart.
Includes an interview with Julian Sands.
Recorded before a live audience at UCLA's James Bridges Theater in March 2019.
Adapted and Directed by Kate McAll
Producing Director Susan Albert Loewenberg
Rosalind Ayres as Charlotte Bartlett
Edita Brychta as Mrs. Honeychurch, Miss Lavish, Signora
Alastair James Murden as Freddy Honeychurch, Guide, Italian Driver
Moira Quirk as Miss Catherine Alan, Miss Teresa Alan, Maid
Darren Richardson as Mr. Beebe and Sir Harry
Julian Sands as Mr. Emerson
Eugene Simon as George Emerson
Eleanor Tomlinson as Lucy Honeychurch
Matthew Wolf as Cecil Vyse, Shopkeeper, English Driver
Associate Artistic Director: Anna Lyse Erikson. Sound Designer, Recording and Mixing Engineer: Mark Holden for The Invisible Studios, West Hollywood. Senior Radio Producer: Ronn Lipkin. Foley Artist: Brian Wallace. Production Manager: Jessie Vachiano. Editor: Julian Nicholson
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“E. M. Forster’s 1908 romantic satire about Brits of the middling upper crust is famously sharp, funny, silly, and benevolent. L.A. Theatre Works’ scripted adaptation honors all of the novel’s best qualities, with a slight emphasis on the plot’s silliness, which shrouds but does not obliterate Forster’s social commentary. No matter how you listen—for madcap froth or to skewer bourgeois pretentions—there is much to relish in this production about Britons abroad and at home. Elinor Tomlinson’s Lucy is naïve and sincere; Julian Sands, who played young George in the 1985 film, returns believably as George’s bluff, kind father. Eugene Simon does a soulful turn as George. Rosalind Ayers’s Aunt Charlotte is heartbreakingly snobbish. And Matthew Wolf’s Cecil Vyse is perfectly pompous. Enjoy.”
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About E. M. Forster
Edward Morgan Forster (1879–1970) was an English novelist and short story writer. He also wrote numerous essays, speeches, and broadcasts, and some biographies and pageant plays. Many of his novels focus upon themes of class difference and hypocrisy. His best-known works are his novels, particularly A Room with a View, Howards End, and A Passage to India. Forster was twenty times nominated for the Nobel Prize for Literature.
About the Narrators
Matthew Wolf has worked extensively as a voice, theater, radio, and television actor. He has appeared in many productions on the London stage, including the title role in a sell-out production of Macbeth alongside Twilight star Robert Pattinson. He is also the official voice of Thor for Mavel Studios’ animated films Hulk Vs. Thor and Thor: Tales of Asgard. He lives in Los Angeles, where he is also producing with his production company, Cool Hand International.
Moira Quirk, a British actress and Earphones Award–winning narrator, co-narrated Ben Bova’s Mercury and has narrated other popular audiobooks for which she received Audie Award nominations. She is a successful comedian and can be heard on Nickelodeon’s cartoon My Life as a Teenage Robot as well as in The Radio Adventures of Dr. Floyd, The Wild Thornberrys Feature, and Serendipity, among others. She has also lent her voice to several video games, including Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction and Haunting Ground.
Edita Brychta was born in Prague but grew up in London, having fled the 1968 Russian occupation of Czechoslovakia. Shetrained at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art and went on to play leading roles in numerous theater productions, including the long-running West End production of Daisy Pulls It Off. Among her notable television credits are the award winning shows The Escape and The Britoil Affair.
Rosalind Ayres is a leading English actress whose many movies include the Oscar-winning Gods and Monsters and Titanic. Her audio performances have won awards in both Britain and the United States, including AudioFile Earphones Awards.
Miriam Margolyes received the BAFTA Best Supporting Actress award in 1993 for The Age of Innocence. She was the voice of Fly the dog in Babe and appeared in Ladies in Lavender with Dames Maggie Smith and Judi Dench. In 2002 she played the role of Professor Sprout in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets.
Gabra Zackman is an actress, author, and narrator who has won several AudioFile Earphones Awards. She was educated at Northwestern University. A classically trained actress, she has appeared in theaters all over the country as well as on film and television.