Breaking the well-established routine of. Of course, we then needed to find actors with tremendous spirit. One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. If you read the play, it’s a very male dominated white world and I just wanted to make sure the world was represented a bit more when you look at the stage, like Britain right now. So, with the rest of the casting, I wanted to make sure that half the cast weren’t white, half the cast were female or non-binary and half male. There’s a sense of 80 Days being an impossible thing to stage anyway and this becomes more interesting because we have an even more unlikely pairing. An unlikely pair who are at the other end of the spectrum, a man with privilege and money who’s able to do these things with a white woman who’s from some sort of artistic background, who’s eccentric and very theatrical and bizarre. Around the World in 80 Days by Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 Topics Fogg, Phileas- (Literary character), Adventure stories, Voyages, Imaginary - Fiction, Voyages around the world - Fiction, LIT, LIT. The director says: “The play is about a love story between Passepartout and Fogg, not in a conventional sense, more like a platonic sense, the odd couple travelling the world. It’s not an easy thing to achieve on stage. While there is a lot going on in the story, the heart of it, as the title suggests, is an adventure that takes the heroes around the world. In many ways, Verne’s story couldn’t really be less ideal for a stage adaptation, on the face of it.
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