Further details announced for immersive theatre experience THE GREAT MIDDLEMARCH MYSTERY

As part of Coventry’s City of Culture year, Dash Arts will present The Great Middlemarch Mystery from 7-10 April, based on the 1871 novel Middlemarch by George Elliot, who set her story in the city. 

Adapted by Josephine Burton with Ruth Livesey, and directed by Burton, the production’s cast includes George Beach, Andrew Cullum, Tom Gordon, Amanda Hurwitz, Aimee Powell, Deborah Tracey, Ryan Van Champion and Joan Walker.

Part immersive theatre experience and part mystery game, The Great Middlemarch Mystery puts a modern twist on Middlemarch and its story of the hopes, dreams, disappointments, and scandals lived out by the inhabitants of a Midlands town. Who is the stranger with unfinished business in Middlemarch? And what is the meaning of his untimely death?

The drama will unfold between four historic venues in central Coventry. The audience will move between each of them, then come together to solve the mystery in this interactive adventure.

The Great Middlemarch Mystery is the first part of a season of work by Dash Arts entitled Albion, which is an exploration of modern Englishness in all its complexity, and will span the next four years.

Josephine Burton said: “Our production will be at the same time both 19th-century Middlemarch and 1980s Coventry, reinterpreting this classic novel that on so many levels still resonates today.”

Tickets are on sale now and can be purchased here.