ACT I

SCENE 1
JARVIS LORRY receives a message and forwards it to the Tellson Bank. He goes to visit LUCIE,
daughter of ex-prisoner MANETTE.

LORRY

SCENE 2
LORRY arrives at LUCIEs home and is let in by the governess MISS PROSS. Lucie faints at the new
but after waking up asks to be taken to her father. LORRY has already made provisions and the duo
depart immediately to France

LORRY
MISS PROSS
LUCIE

SCENE 3
DEFARGE and wife have given lodgings to MANETTE while he gets back on his feet. MANETTE
repays offers to pay them with the money he makes from his shoe-making, a skill he learned in prison.
Upon meeting LUCIE it takes him time to register that they are, indeed, related. The trio depart for
England

DEFARGE
MME. DEFARGE
MANETTE
LUCIE

SCENE 4
Charles DARNAY is on trial for treason against the British Crown. BARSARD and CLY claim
DARNAY gave away info to the French. BARSARD states that he would recognize DARNAY
anywhere, at which point DARNEYs defence counsel, STRYVER, directs attention to Sydney
CARTON, a barrister present in the courtroom who looks almost identical to him. DARNAY is
acquitted.

DARNAY
BARSARD
CLY
STRYVER
CARTON

JUDGE
Order in the Court.
Opersatives Barsard and Cly are well within their rights to provide evidence
against Mr. Darnay.
BARSARD

Thank You Your Honour and may I say

You are looking quite fine today.
This man you see here on my left.
Is accused of Identity Theft.
I see right here, in front my eye
This man looks back, this man a spy
And so good jury sentence him
for men like him are verbatim
Id recognise him any day
The spy who calls himself Darnay
STRYVER

SCENE 5
In Paris, Marquis ST. EVRMONDE orders his carriage driven recklessly fast through the crowded
streets, hitting and killing the child of a peasant. Having observed the incident, DEFARGE comforts
the distraught father.

MARQUIS ST. EVREMONDE

DEFARGE (silent cameo)
GASPARD (silent cameo)

SCENE 6
Arriving at his country chteau, the marquis meets with his nephew and heir, Darnay. Out of disgust
with his aristocratic family, Darnay has shed his real surname and adopted an anglicized version of his
mother's maiden name, D'Aulnais.

MARQUIS ST EVREMONDE
DARNAY

SCENE 7
In the morning the Marquis is found dead with a note on his deathbed. For my Son.

DARNAY

SCENE 8
In London, DARNAY asks MANETTE's permission to wed LUCIE. DARNAY mentions that he has a
secret about his family but MANETTE asks that it remain that way until the day of their wedding,
when they will be family proper.

DARNAY
MANETTE
LUCIE

SCENE 9
On the morning of the marriage, DARNAY reveals his real name and family lineage to MANETTE
who decides that the incident be kept secret from LUCIE.

DARNAY
MANETTE

ACT II
SCENE 10
The DARNAYs and extended family read about the storming of the Bastille in the news. They also
read about authorities being dragged from their homes to be killed. St. Evrmonde chteau is burned
to the ground.

SCENE 11
DARNAY receives a letter written by GABELLE, one of his uncle's servants who has been
imprisoned, pleading for the Marquis to help secure his release. Without telling his family DARNAY
sets out for Paris but is caught and ends up taking LORRY with him, without revealing why.

SCENE 12
DARNAY is arrested and jailed in France.

SCENE 13
MANETTE, LUCIE, and MISS PROSS meet DARNAY in prison, bringing news of his long-awaited
trial

SCENE 14
The trial begins under charges brought by the DEFARGES. An account of his imprisonment at the
hands of DARNAY's father had been hidden in MANETTEs old cell; DEFARGE found it while
searching the cell during the storming of the Bastille.

SCENE 15
At the tribunal, DEFARGE identifies DARNAY as the nephew of the dead MARQUIS ST.
EVRMONDE and reads MANETTE's letter. The letter describes MANETTE's imprisonment at the
hands of DARNAYs father and uncle for trying to report their crimes against a peasant family. The
Evrmonde brothers imprisoned him after he refused their offer of a bribe to keep quiet. He concludes
his letter by condemning the Evrmondes, "them and their descendants, to the last of their race."
MANETTE is horrified, but he is not allowed to retract his statement. DARNAY is sent to the
Conciergerie and sentenced to be guillotined the next day.

SCENE 16
CARTON warns the family of an impending attack from the DEFARGES and ask them to leave as
soon as he gets back. He sets off to the prison.

SCENE 17
Shortly before the executions are to begin CARTON goes into the prison for a visit. The two men
trade clothes, and CARTON drugs DARNAY and has his helper carry him out.

SCENE 18
DARNAY awakes in Italy with all his family around him. The group inform him of CARTONs
sacrifice.

SCENE 19
Meanwhile, MADAME DEFARGE, armed with a dagger and pistol, goes to the MANETTE
residence, hoping to apprehend LUCIE. However, the family is already gone and MISS PROSS stays
behind to confront and delay MADAME DEFARGE. As the two women struggle, MADAME
DEFARGE's pistol discharges, killing her and causing MISS PROSS to go permanently deaf from
noise and shock.

SCENE 20
As CARTON is waiting to board the tumbril, he is approached by a seamstress, also condemned to
death. Realising he is not DARMAY has her awed by his unselfish courage and sacrifice. They face
the guillotine together hand-in-hand.