As co-directors Elizabeth Munro and Mark G Nagle reflect in their directors’ note, the structure of the script is much like a collected series of postcards with Gerry narrating his family’s time in Greece through unusual experiences, new friendships, visitors, and many, many encounters with animals and, similarly exoticised, locals.
The whole family of Durrells including Louisa (Cindy de Wet), Margo (Deanne Ruseska), Larry (Gordon Carroll), Leslie (Joash Stuivenberg), and Gerry (Dominique Nesbitt) forge a rambling, rambunctious path through the Greek countryside with help from their driver Spiro (Theo Hatzistergos), their cook Lugaretzia (Cris Bocchi), and an ever loyal pup named Roger (Jordan McCabe). Set across a number of years, Chambers’s script includes the Durrell’s first move to Corfu from England, their many moves and relationships and adventures on the island, as well as their eventual return to England.
While Lawrence Durrell was arguable the famous writer of the family, the youngest naturalist also wrote a series of books from which were adapted this script and the popular British television show the Durrells which ran from 2016 – 2019. This new stage adaptation by Janys Chambers of Gerald Durrell’s autobiographic writing recreates the chaos and humour of 1930s Corfu for familiar and unfamiliar audiences alike.
The Durrells are one of those famed British families, like the Mitfords, who capture the imaginations of so many people through fictionalisations, dramatisations, and their own personal autobiographies about their unusual, unbelievable, adventurous lives.
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