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The Voysey Inheritance
by Harley Granville-Barker
National Theatre
Lyttleton Theatre, 25 April 2006 ... and returning to the National Theatre on 10th August 2006 (with some cast changes)
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.
Running Time: 2 hours 55 mins (20 minute interval)
- National Theatre production page
- Observer review, 30 April 2006
- Sunday Times review, 30 April 2006
- Mail on Sunday review, 30 April 2006
- Independent on Sunday review, 30 April 2006
- Sunday Telegraph review, 30 April 2006
- Daily Telegraph review, 27 April 2006
- Times review, 26 April 2006
- Independent review, 26 April 2006
- Guardian review, 26 April 2006
- Evening Standard review, 26 April 2006
- FT review, 26 April 2006
- Guardian article, 25 April 2006
- Independent article, 20 April 2006
- Peter Gill interview
| Mr Voysey | Julian Glover |
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| Mrs Voysey (to 7 June) | Doreen Mantle |
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| Trenchard Voysey | Mark Tandy |
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| Honor Voysey | Lucy Briers |
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| Major Booth Voysey | Andrew Woodall |
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| Mrs Booth Voysey (Emily) | Sarah Mowat |
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| Edward Voysey | Dominic West | |
| Hugh Voysey | Martin Hutson | |
| Mrs Hugh Voysey (Beatrice) | Kirsty Bushell | |
| Ethel Voysey (to 7 June) | Isabella Calthorpe |
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| Denis Tregoning (to 7 June) | Joseph Thompson | |
| Alice Maitland (to 7 June) | Nancy Carroll |
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| Mr Booth | John Nettleton | |
| The Rev. Evan Colpus | Roger Swaine |
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| Peacey | John Normington |
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| Phoebe | Julia West |
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| Mary | Anna Steel | |
| Company | David Baron | |
| Christopher Gilling |
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| Max Dowler | ||
| Sinead O'Keeffe |
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| Director | Peter Gill |
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| Designer | Alison Chitty | |
| Lighting | Hartley T A Kemp | |
| Music | Terry Davies | |
| Alice Maitland (from 10 August) | Claire Cox |
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| Denis Tregoning (from 10 August) | William Ellis |
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| Mrs Voysey (from 10 August) | Helen Lindsay |
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| Ethel Voysey (from 10 August) | Claudia Renton |
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| Christoper Voysey | Cameron Cleaver | |
| David Perkins |