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THE GUARDIAN

PLAY 2 AUSTRALIAN PREMIERE

By Simon Gray

From 29 January 2009
Cast Gary Baxter, Katie Fitchett, Lee Jones, Olivera Jovanoska, Mark Lee, Drayton Morley
Director Mark Kilmurry Designer Brian Nickless Lighting Designer Peter Neufeld 

SEASON CONCLUDED

An astonishingly true account of one of the world’s greatest writers and his love affair with a young actress thirty years his junior.

Charles Dickens fell in love with the young actress Nelly Ternan. He was at the height of his success, happily married, one of the best loved authors in the world, England’s most respected moralist, and yet he had this desire that potentially could have ruined him. Only when Nelly’s son, Geoffrey, resolves to uncover the truth do we find out what really happened. Simon Gray’s beautifully written and seductive play examines the nature of affairs, wealth, fame and the legacy for the children left behind. This is part love story, part detective story, but all true.

Running time 2 hours 20 minutes incl. interval