The stage premiere of the world-famous novel
Susie Salmon is just like any other young girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There’s one big difference though – Susie is dead.
Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief in their different ways. Her father, Jack is obsessed with identifying the killer. Her mother, Abigail is desperate to create a different life for herself. And her sister, Lindsay is discovering the opposite sex with experiences that Susie will never know. Susie is desperate to help them and there might be a way of reaching them…
Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that captured the hearts of readers throughout the world. Award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery has adapted it for this play about life after loss.
A Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Royal & Derngate, Northampton and Northern Stage co-production in association with Liverpool Everyman & Playhouse.
The Lovely Bones will be touring to:
Northern Stage, Newcastle Tue 9 to Sat 20 Oct
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Birmingham Tue 30 Oct to Sat 10 Nov
New Wolsey Theatre, Ipswich Tue 13 to Sat 17 Nov
Cast
Company
By Alice Sebold
Adapted by Bryony Lavery
Directed by Melly Still
Designer Ana Inés Jabares-Pita
Composer Dave Price
Lighting Designer Matt Haskins
Sound Designer Helen Skiera
Movement Director Mike Ashcroft
Assistant Director Lucy Bird
Casting Polly Jerrold
Reviews
The Lovely Bones
★★★★
“Charlotte Beaumont is fantastic as Susie”
The Lovely Bones
★★★★
“A mesmerising spectacle”
The Lovely Bones
★★★★
“A joyous, tragic celebration of humanity, with humour and tragedy nestled side by side.”