around the world in eighty days by jules verne

Around the World in Eighty Days, with its steam ships, boats, trains, elephant, and wind-powered sledge, remains a classic more than 150 years later.įogg', who suggested that it might be possible to travel Around The They surmount incredible obstacles in New York City and on the transatlantic trip, and then the challenge gets even more formidable. After crossing the Pacific, they attempt to cross North America by train, with disastrous results. Separated in Hong Kong, Yokohama sees them united again. In India they experience a series of adventures and gain a third travel companion, after which a detective pursues them to China. From London, they go to the Middle East, and through the Suez canal on the way to Bombay. Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) is an acclaimed adventure novel which relates the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his French valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days.

Puppetry (under Naomi Oppenheim) adds atmosphere – the elephant on which Fogg rescues Mrs Aouda from certain death is captivating.& NEW - A book cover close to the designs at around the date ofįirst publication, compared to a modern cover as a classic. Games of visual synecdoche prompt the audience to imagine a whole from a well-chosen part (a life ring attached to a section of railing conjures a ship a wooden chair with luggage rack, a train).

These are created, in typical physical theatre style, through clever combinations of actor movement (under Jess Williams’s direction) and manipulation of a minimal set (designed by Louie Whitemore, lit by Chuma Emembolu). The first half transports us from Europe, across Asia, via a sequence of stage pictures. However, in spite of the chivvying effect of a metronome-governed soundtrack (Benjamin Hudson and Anna Wheatley), this new production from Hull Truck Theatre and Theatre By the Lake, directed by Hal Chambers, sets off at pace rather more stately than hasty. Accompanied by his valet, Passepartout, Fogg sets off to prove his point. “Impossible!” cry the cronies at his club. Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of clockwork-precise habits, wagers his fortune that he will journey around the world in 80 days. T he plot of Jules Verne’s 1872 novel is well known.

Around the world in eighty days by jules verne