Information for The Count of Monte Cristo at Chipping Norton Theatre, Chipping Norton (Play). Edmund Dantes is looking pretty: young, in love and newly promoted Captain of his own ship! But when greed and envy conspire to throw him into a lifetime of jail for a crime he didn't commit, all seems lost. Facing an eternity of darkness and solitude, Dantes must dig deep to find the strength to escape and seek his revenge - he must find new steel within his soul - he must become The Count of Monte Cristo. Expect revenge, redemption and a whole load of ridiculousness as all 1200 pages of French epic are stuffed onto stage.