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Re: After a great deal of consideration

From: Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd <g.devries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Sun, 02 Dec 2007 19:28:36 +0100
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Hi Harry,

I'd suggest to leave Stamp W. Proctor and the Sioux attack in, as well as
the sleigh ride. The courtcase in Calcutta is not very necessary for the
advancement of the plot, I would say.

Cheers,
Garmt.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007 14:12:29 +0100, Harry Hayfield
<harryhayfield~at~googlemail.com> wrote:

> I have decided to submit "Around the World with Phileas Fogg" as my
> suggestion for my local theatre group's Christmas production for 2008,
> but clearly the whole thing will take a lot more than two hours from
> start to finish and therefore think it's best to only do certain
> selected highlights, but would like the forum's opinions as to which
> selected highlights I should do. My initial list goes something along
> these lines:
>
> * An introduction to the life of Mr. Phileas Fogg and Passepartout
> * The wager
> * Inspector Fix on Mr. Fogg's trail
> * The lack of a railway and rescue of the Princess
> * The courtcase in Calcutta
> * Passepartout gettting waylaid in Hong Kong and being reunited in
> Yokohama
> * The election in San Francisco
> * The crossing of the Atlantic in the Henrietta
> * Fix arresting Fogg in Liverpool and the failure
> * The realisation of the day's difference
> * Winning the Wager
>
> All of the bits between can be done by chorus (as in done in "A
> Christmas Carol" which was adapted for the stage by the creator of
> Rumpole of the Bailey). That would come to 14 scenes with is about the
> average that this group can deal with but would be more than welcome to
> recieve any suggestions from the group as to another arrangement.
Received on Sun 02 Dec 2007 - 20:28:46 IST

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