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"This is the saddest story I have ever heard..." So begins Ford Madox Ford's great masterpiece about the disintegration of two marriages. John Dowell, the American narrator of the story, looks back over a seemingly perfect time just before the outbreak of the First World War, when he and his wife, Florence, befriended Edward and Leonora Ashburnham, a British couple. Ford Madox Ford was a novelist, poet, critic and editor whose journals, The English Review and The Transatlantic Review, were instrumental in the development of early 20th-century English literature. Deeply passionate and moving, filled with intrigue and drama, The Good Soldier was described by Graham Greene as "probably one of the finest novels of our century". World Premiere. The Theatre Royal Bath has specially commissioned this stage adaptation by Julian Mitchell, the award-winning playwright and screenwriter whose work includes Another Country, the films Wilde and Vincent & Theo and episodes of Inspector Morse.

Cast/Performers

Jonathan Forbes, John Hopkins, Flora Montgomery, Jennifer Woodward

Creatives/Company

Book by: Ford Madox Ford
Adapted by: Julian Mitchell
Producer: Theatre Royal Bath
Director: Matthew Lloyd
Design: Ruari Murchison
Lighting: Jason Taylor
Music: Olly Fox