Two performers move through teal light as a long piece of fabric sweeps across the stage.

Jermyn Street Theatre2025

David Copperfield

The Production

A Guildford Shakespeare Company production of Dickens’s coming-of-age classic, adapted for three actors in a fast-moving festive staging of wit, invention and Victorian charm.

28 photographs in the curated edit

Director: Abigail Pickard Price
Movement Director: Amy Lawrence
Lighting Design: Mark Dymock
Set & Costume Design: Neil Irish
Sound Design: Matt Eaton
Photography: Steve Gregson

An empty stage with blue window panels, scattered furniture and warm overhead lights is seen from the auditorium.

Two performers in period clothing sit in and beside a large wooden trunk under green and amber light.

A performer in a dark dress stands alone under green-blue light, holding one arm aloft on a set of glowing window panels.

A very tall performer in black stands between two seated performers in red caps on a luggage-strewn stage.

A young performer in a red cap holds a detailed model ship or mechanical object toward the audience.

Four performers gather around a table as one performer extends an object toward a seated man.

A top-hatted performer gestures over an open trunk while another performer kneels beside it under green light.

Three performers crowd around a seated man in white against blue window panels.

A smiling performer in a dark jacket is lit beside an oil lamp and blue window panels.

A performer stands behind a suitcase against a backdrop of orange and blue window panels.

Two performers look up at a small puppet or figure perched on stacked suitcases.

Four performers are grouped around papers on the floor beneath a hanging sign.

A performer in a top hat leans over an open book on a wooden box in blue light.

Two seated performers in period suits share a metal mug against a warm red-lit background.

Two performers run and leap across the stage while a third stands near a cluster of luggage under bright stage lights.

A performer in a striped jacket smiles while standing with a cane before blue window panels.

Two performers hold a red cloth canopy beneath a small figure on stacked suitcases.

A performer in a white veil holds flowers while facing a performer in a dark jacket on a brightly lit stage.

Two performers sit close together on a low platform, smiling under cool blue light.

A top-hatted performer gestures toward the audience while two other performers stand behind him.

A performer in a checked coat points upward while holding a long handwritten sheet.

A smiling performer in glasses and a straw hat holds a paper in front of blue window panels.

A performer smiles while holding a concertina-like object on a wooden case beneath blue lights.

A foreground performer in a brown suit looks ahead while another performer stands blurred behind him.

A performer stands in a doorway between blue panels with a long blue fabric trailing across the floor.

Three performers lean forward and point toward the audience under warm stage lights.

Four performers stand onstage beneath a suspended kite-like prop and multicoloured lights.

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