Gerald Fox
Director


A coruscating drama, based on an award winning novel, which explores the troubled relationships between the various members of an English family over a long summer when Eleanor, the stroke-afflicted old mother decides to give away her beautiful house in Provence to a New Age Foundation run by an Irish charlatan rather than to her own son and his young family. The story is told from the point-of-view firstly of Robert, an eight year old boy, then his increasingly drunken father, Patrick and also finally Mary, his long-suffering mother as they all struggle to come to terms with the loss of something they love desperately but increasingly realize will soon be gone forever. It is both a funny and moving tale of family discord.
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Gerald Fox
Director

Jack Davenport
Patrick Melrose

Annabel Mullion
Mary Melrose

Annette Badland
Margaret

Adrian Dunbar
Seamus Dorke

Jane How
Caroline

Emma Lowndes
Nurse

Flora Montgomery
Julia

Robert Portal
Jim Packer

Diana Quick
Kettle

Margaret Tyzack
Eleanor Melrose
Thomas Underhill
Robert Melrose
Laura Power
Jo

Isalinde Giovangigli
Eleanor Melrose Nurse
Peggy Quetglas
Hippy
Jean Vincentelli
Kettle's husband
Gerald Fox
Writer
Edward St. Aubyn
Writer