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Playwright
Micheál Mac Liammóir Sally Travers
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Adapted / Translated From
George Du Maurier
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Setting
A studio in the Place de St. Anatole des Arts, Paris.
A corridor of the Salle des Baschibazoucks, Paris.
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Notes
A Note on the Costumes:
The sense of recent period, of the humour and nostalgia of the dresses and manners of the last generation but one so widely popular today, was not in vogue in the nineties. George du Maurier published "Trilby" in 1895 and in his novel described a phase of Parisian life that had existed in his youth some thirty years previously. According to his dates, Trilby herself should appear in a crinoline and her male contemporaries in the bottle-green frock coats and peg-top trousers of the '50s and '60s. Yet in his famous illustrations we behold his characters arrayed in the unmistakeable fashions of the last decade of the century. In this production I have endeavoured to follow the date of the black and white drawings rather than that of the text of this masterpiece of sentiment and sensation. Micheal Mac Liammoir
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Synopsis
Du Maurier's melodrama romantises the bohmemian life of artists. Trilby is a working-class model for a studio in Paris, where she is in love with one of the artists, Little Billee, but cannot marry him, because he's upper class. He becomes famous for his work in London, while she is taken on by Svengali, a musician and hypnotist, who teaches her how to sing beautifully under his spell and she becomes the adored opera singer La Svengali.
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Play Type
Adaptation/Translation
Number Of Acts
Full-Length
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Cast Size Male
22
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Cast Size Female
15
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Cast Notes
Cast Doubling is possible. See Original Production for details.