User:Wessex92

Tess is a musical based on the novel Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy with music by Michael Blore and book and lyrics by Michael Davies.

Synopsis
Set in the Wessex so beloved by Thomas Hardy, Tess tells the devastating story of Tess Durbeyfield, daughter of a poor villager who fatefully discovers that they may be related to the ancient aristocratic d'Urberville family.

As Tess is sent to seek respectability with her new-found relatives, she embarks on an emotional and dramatic journey that will lead her to love, loss and ultimate tragedy. Struggling with the social mores of the rural Victorian world she inhabits, and the hypocrisy that plagues her sex, she forges a desperate path to pursue her own destiny against the backdrop of a society that seems determined to doom her.

Characters
• Tess Durbeyfield - eldest daughter of a Marlott village farming family. Vocal range - mezzo soprano

• John Durbeyfield - Tess's father with a penchant for drink. Vocal range - bass

• Joan Durbeyfield - Tess's superstitious mother. Vocal range - soprano

• Angel Clare - second son of a parson entertaining a certain wanderlust. Vocal range - baritone/tenor

• Alec d'Urberville - a nouveau riche landowner. Vocal range - baritone/tenor

• Marian - a dairymaid and a lush. Vocal range - alto

• Izzy - a dairymaid. Vocal range - alto

• Retty - a new dairymaid. Vocal range - mezzo soprano

A Chorus variously serving as villagers, servants, farm labourers, townsfolk, wedding guests, conmen, whores, pimps, postman etc and including

• Parson Tringham - the Marlott village minister. Vocal range - baritone

• Groby - a farm manager. Vocal range - baritone

• Car Darch - a feisty farm girl. Vocal range - mezzo soprano

Musical numbers
The following is the song list from the original 2015 show: