A Mirrored Monet

A Mirrored Monet description

Based on the real-life letters, articles, and diaries written by Claude Monet and others, A Mirrored Monet is a beautiful period drama with a difference. The place is Paris and the year is 1916, bang in the middle of the First World War. Painter Claude Monet is having difficulty finishing a government commission, his most famous work, The Water Lilies. But it's about more than art. It's a matter of survival. Without the money and supplies the project brings, he'll struggle to survive. Suffering from creative block and terribly worried about the future, he retreats into the old times of the late 1800s when the lives of Renoir, Manet, and Monet's first wife, the model and muse Camille Doncieux, were so much simpler.

The show stars Jeff Shankley (Starlight Express, Cats) as Monet as an older man and Dean John-Wilson (Your Lie in April: The Musical, The King and I) as young Monet. John Addison plays Leroy, Brooke Bazarian plays Camille, Natalie Day plays Blanch and Suzanne, and Ritesh Manugula is Bazille. Sam Peggs plays Renoir, Aaron Pryce-Lewis plays Manet and Durand-Ruel, and Steven Serlin plays Marquis. Director Christian Durham and Musical Director Michael Webborn join Designer Libby Todd, Lighting Designer Jodie Underwood and Sound Designer Andy Johnson. The Video Designer is Matt Powell, and the Production Manager is James Anderton. Assistant Movement Director Heather Douglas joins Assistant Music Director Rachel Blaquiere, with Orchestration from Neil Metcalfe, and casting by Casting Director Jane Deitch. Expect something unusual, compelling, and inspiring.

Playing at Charing Cross Theatre (venue info)

A Mirrored Monet video