Ingenious stagecraft invigorates new version of ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’

Far from the Madding Crowd Theatre Royal 25/11/08

In the first act of this staging of Far from the Madding Crowd, the good-hearted farmer Gabriel Oak proposes marriage to headstrong heroine Bathsheba Everdene by painting a picture of what their marital life could be like: “at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be – and whenever I look up there will be you.”
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