Window.dataLayer = window.Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a novel by Jules Verne, described contemporaneously as taking place in the last quarter of 1872, as the historical British Empire on which 'the sun never sets' was nearing its peak. © 2020 The Barn Theatre The Barn Theatre Project – registered charity no. We can' t believe it - just 4 days left of Waiting Wow, just 3 days left to see Waiting for Anya at t Wow, just 2 days left of Waiting for Anya! We don' ĭon' t you just love meeting new people? The actors Waiting for Anya, the heartwarming and uplifting a

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Maybe, through the power of human invention and a bit of Barn ingenuity, they might just pull it off.

It is also clearly impossible to tell this story with only three actors, but these idiots are going to take us all on a breath-taking roller-coaster ride around the world filled with thrills and adventure, and no short order of panache, in a Built by Barn version of a rollicking, side splitting, laugh a minute, adaptation. In the great Victorian Age, it is clearly impossible to go around the world in eighty days, and only an idiot would try it. A real family pleaser about a very English gentlemen and his French valet Passepartout traversing the globe in order to win a bet, with hysterically funny consequences.Ī fast paced and playfully comic adaptation of Jules Verne’s epic adventure novel for three actors and far too much multi-rolling. Following his hugely successful versions of The Hound of The Baskerville, 39 Steps, and Ben Hur, Joe O’Malley returns to direct his fourth hilarious production, Around the World in Eighty Days.Īdapter Toby Hulse has used the same template from which Patrick Barlow’s version of The 39 Steps was formed.

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