The Doctor's Story, Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond-upon-Thames
Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond-upon-Thames: The second in the Orange Tree's interlocking Middlemarch trilogy concerns the fortunes of the recklessly progressive Dr Lydgate, a rather dashing, Darcy-esque figure in the person of David Ricardo-Pearce, who woos and weds the nubile Rosamund (Niamh Walsh), daughter of the Mayor of Middlemarch, and almost immediately falls into catastrophic debt. Read the full review