Into this roiling and dynamic tale of two Londons comes the 19-year-old heroine and protagonist, Sugar (an absolutely incredible, brilliant performance by Romola Garai) a forward thinking, ambitious and highly literate prostitute. Romola Garai as Sugar in The Crimson Petal and the White directed by Marc Munden. London was its apotheosis of extremes, exemplifying the hypocritical, schizoid, uptight female, and perversely hedonistic male Victorians of the middle and upper classes, and the shameful existence of the equally paternalistic, hypocritical servant and impoverished lower class Victorians who allowed the rich to prey on them and exploit them for a meager, tawdry, dependent nonexistence. The symbolism of the crimson petal and the white refers to many concepts in the story which takes place in 1870s London and focuses on the culture’s divisive paternalism and classism as particularly noxious evils.
The title of the novel/ film is taken from the first line of Tennyson’s poem, “Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white.”
The production is based on Michel Faber’s intriguing and masterful novel published in 2002 whose title is from Alfred Lord Tennyson’s poem, Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal. The Crimson Petal and the White directed by Marc Munden with screenplay adaptation by Lucinda Coxon is a four-part, award-winning BBC TV mini series that aired in 2011. Romola Garai (Sugar) and Chris O’Dowd (William Rackham) in The Crimson Petal and the White, based on the novel of the same title by Michel Faber.
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