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Daniel Deronda: Dramatized from the Novel by George Eliot
Written by George Elliot and Kate McAll
Narrated by Edita Brychta, Barry Creyton, André Sogliuzzo and
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Scornful of men and the love they profess for her, Gwendolen Harleth is a beautiful but spoiled young woman, frustrated by her limited options in Victorian England. Daniel Deronda is an intelligent, handsome young man who has been raised by his guardian, Sir Hugo Mallinger, but knows nothing of his true origins. Deronda’s search leads him into the world of 19th-century Zionism, a discovery that will alter the course of his life.
An original L.A. Theatre Works commission, adapted and directed by Kate McAll. Includes an audience talkback about George Eliot with Hilary Schor, Professor of English, Comparative Literature and Law at USC.
An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast recording, starring:
- Edita Brychta as Mother, Madame von Langen and others
- Barry Creyton as Sir Hugo Mallinger and Lord Brackenshaw
- Ifan Meredith as Daniel Deronda
- Cerris Morgan-Moyer as Aunt Nancy and others
- Kimberley Nixon as Gwendolen Harleth
- Darren Richardson as Mordecai, Hans, and others
- Helen Sadler as Mirah Lapidoth
- Julian Sands as Henleigh Mallinger Grandcourt
- André Sogliuzzo as Uncle Henry and others
- With Kate Burton as George Eliot/Narrator
Recorded live in performance at UCLA’s James Bridges Theater in March 2018.
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