Meanwhile, Scotland Yard’s Detective Fix (Bill Murphey) matches Fogg’s description to an aristocratic thief who robbed a London bank the same day as Fogg’s departure. A figure of almost zen-like stillness and confidence, Fogg dismisses surprise setbacks and potential disasters with remarks such as “It has been foreseen.” Brown’s text and Key’s performance humanize Fogg over the course of his journey, and he becomes a man of passion, not just android-like mathematical precision.įogg takes a 20,000-pound bet at his gentleman’s club that he can make the titular voyage, to the considerable surprise of his new manservant Passepartout (Paul Hester), a French former circus acrobat. Instead of dervish-like energy, Key projects an unflappable calm as Fogg. Theatrical Outfit artistic director Tom Key plays a surprisingly restrained version of Fogg, one of literature’s iconic Englishmen (despite having been created by a French novelist).
Clint Thornton directs a high-spirited, almost giddy production of Mark Brown’s fleet adaptation, which will please anyone who finds a thrill in traveling by rail or steamship. Given that today you could drive to Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport and book a trip around the world in less than 80 hours, audiences need to put themselves in a pre-Wright Brothers mindset for Theatrical Outfit’s Around the World in 80 Days. Fogg’s more like the air commuter who gets impatient when the plane leaves the gate at 6:44 a.m. In his era, departures relied on the whims of tides and weather that could result in delays of weeks. Punctuality and exactitude define Fogg, and he’s capable of such precise estimates of travel times, it’s like his head contains a Wi-Fi connection to Travelocity. This is the story of a quite remarkable adventure, by a quite remarkable man.Phileas Fogg, the English gentleman who journeys around the world in 80 days in Jules Verne’s novel of the same name, resembles a modern, 21st-century traveler circumnavigating the globe of 1872.
He then crosses Australia, rides up through New Zealand and across North America before the final 'sprint finish' thorough Portugal, Spain and France, all at over 200 miles a day.
It is also an insight into the mind of an elite athlete and the physical limits of the human body, as well as a kaleidoscopic tour of the world from a very unique perspective inspired by Jules Verne’s classic adventure novel, Mark begins his journey in Paris and cycles through Europe, Russia, Mongolia and China. He smashed two Guinness World Records and beat the previous record by an astonishing 45 days.Īround the World in 80 Days is the story of Mark’s amazing achievement - one which redefines the limits of human endurance. Covering more than 18,000 miles and cycling through some of the harshest conditions one man and his bicycle can endure, Mark made history. 78 days, 14 hours and 40 minutes earlier he set off from the same point, beginning his attempt to circumnavigate the world in record time. On Monday 18th September 2017, Mark Beaumont pedalled through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris. The inspiring story of one man's record-breaking cycle around the world.
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