★★★★★
‘Riveting’
Telegraph
There is nothing more than to love and be loved.
Sebastian Faulks’s epic story of love and loss returns to the stage marking the 30th anniversary of the international best-selling novel.
The critically acclaimed show returns in a brand-new production for 2024. Telling the story of one man’s journey through an all-consuming love affair and into the horror of the First World War.
In pre-war France, a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, embarks on a passionate and dangerous affair with the beautiful Isabelle Azaire that turns their world upside down. As the war breaks out over the idyll of his former life, Stephen must lead his men through the carnage of the Battle of the Somme and through the sprawling tunnels that lie deep underground. Faced with the unprecedented horror of the war Stephen clings to the memory of Isabelle as his world explodes around him.
A mesmerising story of love and courage. Set both before and during the Great War.
Once seen never forgotten.
Starring award-winning actor Max Bowden, best known for the role of Ben Mitchell in EastEnders, James Esler (Litvinenko) and Charlie Russell (The Goes Wrong Show, And Then There Were None (BBC)).
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‘Uniformly excellent’
The Times★★★★
‘A staggering achievement’
Daily Mail
Presented by Original Theatre and JAS Theatricals in association with Joshua Beaumont & Huw Allen, Tiny Giant Entertainment, Birdsong Productions and Wiltshire Creative.
www.birdsongplay.com
Cast
Max Bowden
Jack Firebrace
Joseph Benjamin Baker
Evans
Raif Clarke
Tipper
James Esler
Stephen Wraysford
James Findlay
Brennan
Dave Fishley
Turner / Chaplain
Gracie Follows
Lisette
Sulin Hasso
Marguerite
Tama Phethean
Arthur Shaw / John
Natalie Radmall-Quirke
Jeanne / Nurse
Roger Ringrose
Berard / Barclay
Charlie Russell
Isabelle Azaire
Sargon Yelda
Renee Azaire / Gray
Company
Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff
Directed by Alastair Whatley
