Escape into the hilariously tragic world of Madame Bovary — where mischief, love, and mishaps collide in a wild Victorian night of rebellion!
Emma Bovary is really bored. She is bored with her doctor husband, bored with the quiet provincial village where she lives, and totally bored with her role as a dutiful wife in (boring) 19th-century France. Emma does read novels though. She reads lots and lots of novels. And in the novels that she reads, life is so much more fun…
Four actors now battle misbehaving props and hilarious mishaps at Southwark Playhouse Borough to tell The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary.
Prepare yourself to laugh and cry in equal measure as Emma Bovary chooses the wrong husband, and lose yourself in mesmeric love scenes that feature a stupendous collection of devilishly handsome men. Feel free to question the impotence of women in a patriarchal, Victorian society. There will be visual absurdity, vermin, wild animals, oh...and a nun.
Gustave Flaubert’s novel Madame Bovary was published in 1856, prosecuted for obscenity, and finally hailed as the greatest novel ever written and now given a refreshing shake-up in this irrepressible, irreverent, and irresistible play.