A two-part stage adaptation of John Galsworthy’s The Forsyte Saga will play at London’s Park Theatre across a range of dates.
The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene and The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleur will play scross alternate nights and run consecutively on matinee days, featuring a cast of nine in a stylish period production, produced by Troupe.
Joseph Millson plays the infamous Soames Forsyte, with Fiona Hampton as Irene and Flora Spencer-Longhurst as Fleur. Emma Amos, Nigel Hastings, Michael Lumsden, Florence Roberts, Andy Rush and Jamie Wilkes complete the ensemble cast, playing the rest of the Forsyte family.
Joseph is best-known for appearing alongside Daniel Craig in Casino Royale, or Gerard Butler in Angel Has Fallen.
Producer Ashley Cook said: “I am so excited that we are bringing this superb story to life on the stage. To have award-winning writers of the calibre of Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan create the adaptation for this world première, is especially thrilling - and with JMK Award winner, Josh Roche at the helm, we are in the best creative hands.”
About the show
John Galsworthy’s classic story is newly dramatised for the stage in two parts and focuses on wealthy solicitor Soames Forsyte, a man of property, whose beautiful wife Irene is his most prized possession.
When he commissions an architect to build him a house in which to keep her, the cracks in their marriage finally begin to show, until something happens so shocking that it tears the Forsyte family apart. Years later, Soames’ daughter Fleur is haunted by the family secret when history begins to repeat itself.
“To have award-winning writers of the calibre of Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan create the adaptation for this world première, is especially thrilling - and with JMK Award winner, Josh Roche at the helm, we are in the best creative hands.”
Ashley Cook, producer
Bringing the unheard female voices to the fore for the first time, and spanning 40 years from the last gasp of the Victorian age to the beginning of the roaring 1920s, this is said to be an epic tale of sex, money and power.
The Forsyte Saga was televised by the BBC in 1967 and was again serialised by ITV in 2002. Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan adapted the novels for BBC Radio 4 in 2016 under the title The Forsytes.
The production opens in Park200 at the Park Theatre in Finsbury Park on 19th October 2024, with previews from 11th October 2024, and runs until 7th December 2024. The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene and The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleur play across alternate nights and run consecutively on matinee days.
The two parts of The Forsyte Saga are separate and intended to be seen sequentially. However, each part constitutes a complete theatre-going experience on its own.
Groups who buy ten tickets get the 11th free. More information is available at parktheatre.co.uk/event/the-forsyte-saga-parts-1-and-2.
