The Widowing of Mrs Holroyd

A Drama In Three Acts

BASED ON: Play "The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd" by D. H. Lawrence

SETTING: Pre World War I Welsh Mining Town

RUN TIME: 87 Minutes

RELEASE INFO:

UK - 14 October 1995

BBC2 production for television


DIRECTOR: Katie Mitchell	WRITER: D. H. Lawrence
PRODUCER: Simon Curtis, Ruth Mayorcas	CINEMATOGRAPHER: Jonathan Taylor


CAST: Colin Firth... Charles Holroyd Zoe Wanamaker... Mrs. Holroyd Stephen Dillane... Mr. Blackmore Gavin Abbott... Miner Christopher Brand... Miner Brenda Bruce... Grandmother Wayne Foskett... Rigby Shane Fox... Jack Melanie Hill... Laura Peter Needham... Mine Manager Lauren Richardson... Minnie Mossie Smith... Clara	Production Companies: BBC Production

The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd, written immediately after Sons and Lovers, is one of D. H. Lawrence's most significant early works. The play, Lawrence's first, is the alter ego of the story "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and, like the short story, deals with a catastrophe in the lives of a coal mining family. Drawing upon the intensity of events that unfold in the miner's kitchen, the play explores a marriage bowed under the weight of a husband's drinking and infidelity and peers into the strange, burgeoning relationship between the neglected wife, Mrs. Holroyd, and the young electrician in whom she seeks emotional refuge. First published in 1914, The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd is a bare tracing of the ways in which a marriage has gone wrong. - John Worthen, Professor of D. H. Lawrence Studies at the University of Nottingham.