Gormenghast (2000)

Cast

Series cast summary:
	Celia Imrie	...	Lady Gertrude (4 episodes, 2000)
	Christopher Lee	...	Flay (4 episodes, 2000)
	Warren Mitchell	...	Barquentine (4 episodes, 2000)
	Neve McIntosh	...	Lady Fuchsia (4 episodes, 2000)
	Jonathan Rhys Meyers	...	Steerpike (4 episodes, 2000)
	John Sessions	...	Dr. Prunesquallor (4 episodes, 2000)
	Fiona Shaw	...	Irma Prunesquallor (4 episodes, 2000)
	June Brown	...	Nannie Slagg (3 episodes, 2000)
	Lynsey Baxter	...	Cora Groan (3 episodes, 2000)
	Zoë Wanamaker	...	Clarice Groan (3 episodes, 2000)
	George Antoni	...	Bookman (3 episodes, 2000)
	Sean Hughes	...	Poet (3 episodes, 2000)
	Stephen Fry	...	Professor Bellgrove (2 episodes, 2000)
	Richard Griffiths	...	Swelter (2 episodes, 2000)
	Ian Richardson	...	Lord Groan (2 episodes, 2000)
	Windsor Davies	...	Rottcodd (2 episodes, 2000)
	Olga Sosnovska	...	Keda (2 episodes, 2000)
	Eric Sykes	...	Mollocks (2 episodes, 2000)

Storyline

Gormenghast is an ancient city-state which primarily consists of a rambling and crumbling castle. The narrative, based on the first two of the three Gormenghast novels by Mervyn Peake, begins with the birth of a son, Titus, to the 76th Earl, Sepulchrave Groan, and Countess Gertrude. This mismatched pair (he'd prefer the melancholy privacy of his library; she'd prefer the company of her menagerie of cats and birds) also have a teenaged daughter, Fuchsia, who resents her new brother but comes to love him dearly. Simultaneously, a young kitchen apprentice, Steerpike, takes advantage of an altercation between head cook Swelter and the Earl's manservant, Mr. Flay, and escapes from the kitchens. Gormenghast is rigidly feudal in structure, but Steerpike has ambitions. He befriends the imaginative, yearning Fuchsia, and through her becomes apprenticed to the castle physician, Dr. Prunesquallor... Written by G.M. Baxter  

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