Jude the Obscure: Part I & II

Assistant Stage Manager
show poster
Apr. 12, 2012 to May. 05, 2012
World Premiere
2012 Indy Week Year in Triangle Theater: Best Original Scripts & Adaptations
Part I Trailer
Part II Trailer
Part II Trailer

Reviews

  • "I was beyond pleased that the creative team made the stage adaptation of Hardy's work just as gritty and powerful as the original text." BroadwayWorld (PDF)
  • "It's from the schism between the moral and immoral, what those words mean and how they affect one's life, that the play draws most of its conflict. That conflict, though rooted in Hardy's late Victorian world, never feels distant or alien in this adaptation." Indy Week (PDF)
Synopsis
Thomas Hardy’s final novel is staged for the first time ever on a stage, in a musical two-part adaptation. Young Jude Fawley, born into poverty, becomes convinced through the presence of a teacher in his young life, that anything is possible. He sets out to raise himself above his position and climb the highest heights Along the way, the love of his life, Sue Bridehead, will change his thinking about everything.