There’s a sense of 80 Days being an impossible thing to stage anyway and this becomes more interesting because we have an even more unlikely pairing. An unlikely pair who are at the other end of the spectrum, a man with privilege and money who’s able to do these things with a white woman who’s from some sort of artistic background, who’s eccentric and very theatrical and bizarre. The director says: “The play is about a love story between Passepartout and Fogg, not in a conventional sense, more like a platonic sense, the odd couple travelling the world. It’s not an easy thing to achieve on stage. While there is a lot going on in the story, the heart of it, as the title suggests, is an adventure that takes the heroes around the world. In many ways, Verne’s story couldn’t really be less ideal for a stage adaptation, on the face of it.
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