Jermyn Street Theatre have announced that Call The Midwife star Jennifer Kirby will star in their forthcoming production of The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! by Peepolykus co-artistic director John Nicholson, which runs at the venue from 17 November-17 December.

Directed by Marieke Audsley, Kirby will take the eponymous role of Madame Bovary, with the rest of the four strong cast soon to be announced.

Emma Bovary is bored. She’s bored with her boring doctor husband, bored with her boring provincial village, and bored with her role as a dutiful wife in (boring) nineteenth-century France. But Emma reads novels. Lots of novels. And in novels, life is considerably more riotous… In Jermyn Street Theatre’s Christmas production, a small cast of actors battle hilarious mishaps and misbehaving props to tell the (massively) tragic story of Madame Bovary.

When his seminal work was first published in mid-nineteenth century France, Flaubert was prosecuted for obscenity.  Now this scandalous chronicle of marital breakdown and domestic tragedy is hailed as one of the best novels ever written.  Originally written for Peepolykus and previously staged in Liverpool and Bristol, John Nicholson’s adaptation employs his trademark ridiculous and anarchic humour to stage this classic novel as a breakneck comical romp.

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