Monsieur Grandet, who has amassed a considerable fortune, is a miser who feigns poverty and runs his household along miserably frugal lines. This all changes with the arrival from Paris of his nephew, Charles Grandet. Charles has brought with him a shocking letter from his father, Guillaume, who has committed suicide. He has placed his debts and the care of his son into his brother's hands. It is a fatal decision, with ruinous consequences for the whole family.
As the newcomer causes trouble within his uncle's home, Felix finds himself at the heart of a tempestuous domestic battle with his previously dutiful daughter Eugenie.
Eugenie Grandet is considered by many to be the strongest novel in Balzac's series, Comédie humaine (The Human Comedy). It pits a young naive girl against the father she has worshipped and this defiance – taking young Charles's side against her father – sets listeners on course for the playing out of a heart-rending tragedy. Grandet is a man who deeply loves the daughter who has defied him. He has no other child, no hope, no future but her. Yet his terror of material ruin overrides this love and causes him to act in ways that will bring about his physical collapse and destroy Eugenie's future.
Cast:
Grandet .........Ian McKellen
Eugenie .........Alison Pettitt
Nanon .........Shirley Dixon
Mme Grandet .........Anna Caler-Marshall
Cruchot .........Harry Hadden-Paton
des Grassins .........David Horovitch
Charles .........Blake Ritson
Mme des Grassins .........Jenny Funnell
Abbe .........Geoffrey Beevers
Adolphe .........Arthur Hughes
Dramatised by Rose Tremain
Cello and Treble Recorder: Alison Baldwin
Original Music: Lucinda Mason Brown
Produced & Directed by Gordon House
A Goldhawk Essential Production
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William, thank you for sharing another drama. You have added so many fine works to this group.