The Girl With a Pearl Earring

David Joss Buckley’s stage version of Tracy Chevalier’s best-selling novel The Girl With a Pearl Earring is directed by Joe Dowling, and stars Kimberely Nixon, Adrian Dunbar, Sara Kestleman, Niall Buggy, Lesley Vickerage, Maggie Service, Jonathan Bailey, and Flora Spencer-Longhurst.

Chevalier’s 1999 historical novel was inspired by 17th-century Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer’s masterpiece of the same name. In the fictional story, Vermeer hires the teenage girl Griet to help in his house. But it’s not long before she becomes more than just a servant: she starts to help him in his studio, learning the art of painting by watching the master. And then, secretly, Vermeer begins to paint her, asking her to pose for his most famous portrait.