Somerset Maugham’s sparky comedy of manners, The Circle, will transfer to the Grade II-listed Richmond Theatre in February 2024.
Will history come full circle? Or can one generation learn from their parents’ mistakes?
Jane Asher (Alfie, Deep End) plays Lady Kitty, a society beauty who notoriously abandoned her stuffy husband Clive (Clive Francis, The Crown), and eloped with the handsome Lord Porteous (Nicholas Le Prevost, Shakespeare in Love, Testament of Youth).
Thirty years later, love’s young dream has descended into non-stop squabbling. Meanwhile, Clive and Lady Kitty’s son Arnold face the same marital fate, as his wife Elizabeth threatens to elope with the dashing Teddie Luton.
Joining Jane Asher, Clive Francis and Nicholas Le Prevost in the cast are Pete Ashmore (The Lovely Bones), Olivia Vinall (King Lear, Othello National Theatre), Daniel Burke (Troilus and Cressida, RSC) and Robert Maskell (Lost and Spaced).
The Circle was first staged in 1921 and has remained a firm favourite with audiences ever since.
Maugham was among the most successful novelists and playwrights of the inter-war years.
Many of his novels, including The Painted Veil, Theatre, Up At The Villa and Of Human Bondage have been adapted for the screen.
Richmond Theatre, Little Green, TW9 1QJ
Tuesday 20 – Saturday 24 February 2024
Tickets from £13*
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