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‘What do we own, if not our lives?’

Charithra Chandran (Edwina Sharma in ‘Bridgerton’) stars in a bold, new adaptation of Pam Gems’ powerful stage play.

When Camille, a famous courtesan, and Armaan, a young aristocrat, fall in love, they begin an eternal story about desperate dilemmas.

Based on Alexandre Dumas’s novel ‘La Dame aux Camélias’, which in turn inspired Verdi’s opera ‘La traviata’, ‘Camille’ is a forceful retelling of one of the greatest tragic love stories in western classical music. The play was first staged by the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1984.

For this production – the first for radio – adaptor Satinder Chohan relocates the action from France to India. The original Parisian salons and courtesans of 1848 become the thriving courtesan houses of mid-19th-century Calcutta.

Camille ….. Charithra Chandran
Armaan …… Ronak Patani
Maharaja ….. Narinder Samra
Premila ….. Shaheen Khan
Sophiya ….. Rameet Rauli
British General ….. David Holt
Dhanik ….. Nitin Ganatra
Ghassan ….. Ronny Jhutti
Yuvita ….. Manjeet Mann
Janpal ….. Robin Cross

With specially performed improvised music by Arun Ghosh (clarinet, harmonium, lute), Sarathy Korwar (tabla) and Preetha Narayanan (violin).

Production Co-ordinator: Sarah Tombling
Sound Designer: Paul Arnold

Director / Producer: Amber Barnfather

A Flare Path production for Â鶹Éç Radio 3

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