The Mill on the Floss

A detailed Summary of The Mill on the Floss

The Mill on the Floss was extracted from the novel by George Eliot and recently adapted by Helen Edmundson for Soulpepper. The play, which is set in the Victorian era, has a historical morals attached to it. These morals tend to revolve around the female sex and in this play Maggie, the daughter of a troubled mill owner. Maggie, being the lead character, carries the progression of the entire play. When Maggie falls the entire play seems to circle around the fall and the other characters go through the pain Maggie goes through the only difference being the different perspectives. The story puts across to the amateur theatre go-er a plot line as follows: "Girl falls in love with boy boy also loves girl and wants to make a relationship, girl can not because boy is the son of her families arch enemy, girl is torn by her decision..." Usually stories like these ends with the two getting together and being happy forever and ever or they end like Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare wit!

h both boy and girl die because of their love and devotion to one another. This play has neither; in fact this play has so much depth and significance relating back to the historical background of the time. In reality Maggie has nothing she is in a sta

The characters in the play were amazing! I must say that Maggie was fantastic or should I say the Maggie's? Yes that's correct there is more than one. This is one of the features of the play that I found so unbelievably appealing. At certain reflecting periods Maggie, in monologue, would be facing certain inner-dilemmas. The actress switch was done (twice) so beautifully that I found it to be a Cirque du soleil meets The Lion King on both counts. This switch of actress certainly brought an automatic change to the character (voice, figure, hair style) but more importantly symbolized advancement in time of the progression of Maggie. The first Maggie Torri Hinginson was fabulous; she portrayed the young Maggie perfectly and gave her an abundance of life and energy that only wanted to explore and read every book that she could get her hands on. Julia Arkos played the second one and also did a fantastic job at developing her character to a late teenager who exerted this more c!

ght hearted role that you would think would contradict the deep moralistic plot but actually it somehow brings hope to the story, the light at the end of the tunnel indicating that this play might actually finish tonight.

The Mill on the Floss, directed by Robin Phillips

te of solitude, an isolated woman that becomes increasingly sadder as she progresses the play. Even when she is given the opportunity to love someone other than an enemy, the man turns out to be her cousins fiance, and this leads to the theme of the entire play; Maggie's decisions and whether they are right or wrong for that particular time period being that she is bound by certain family and social "laws." I guess you could say that this is quite abnormal from our standpoint but during the actual

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