Grange Festival delivers an engaging Mansfield Park by Jonathan Dove

By David Truslove, 18 September 2017

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Reviewed at The Grange, Alresford on 16 September 2017

Dove, Mansfield Park (New Orchestral Version)

David Parry, Conductor

Martin Lloyd-Evans, Director

Dick Bird, Set Designer

Martha Jones, Fanny Price

Sarah Pring, Lady Bertram

Grant Doyle, Sir Thomas Bertram

Emily Vine, Maria Bertram

Angharad Lyddon, Julia Bertram

Henry Neill, Edmund Bertram

Jeni Bern, Aunt Norris

Shelley Jackson, Mary Crawford

Nick Pritchard, Henry Crawford

Oliver Johnston, Mr Rushworth

Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra

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David Truslove

After many years as a musician – conducting choirs, singing as a lay clerk at Winchester Cathedral and an involvement in education, David now writes programme notes, occasionally composes and enjoys a busy schedule of reviewing.