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Original Theatre and JAS Theatricals in association with Joshua Beaumont & Huw Allen,
Tiny Giant Entertainment, Birdsong Productions and WilTshire Creative present

Sebastian Faulks’s

BIRDSONG

Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff

Directed by Alastair Whatley

 

★★★★★ ‘Riveting Telegraph

 How far would you go for love? 

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.

 

Produced by the award-winning Original Theatre, who brought you the smash hit productions of The Mirror Crack’d by Agatha Christie, Murder in the Dark and The Habit of Art.

★★★★ ‘A staggering achievement ’ Daily Mail

★★★★ ‘Uniformly excellent ’ The Times 

Age guidance 15+
This production contains nudity and simulated sexual content, strong language, sexual references, themes of war, death and violence and references to abuse.

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Touring 2024/25

  • Cheltenham Everyman

    22 - 26 October

  • Yvonne Arnaud, Guildford

    29 October - 2 November

  • Chichester Festival Theatre

    5 - 9 November

  • Norwich Theatre Royal

    12 - 16 November

  • Malvern Theatre

    19 - 23 November

  • Theatre Royal Bath

    25 - 30 November

  • Newcastle Theatre Royal

    21 - 25 January 2025

  • Birmingham Rep

    27 January - 1 February 2025

  • Theatre Royal Brighton

    4 - 8 February 2025

  • Aylesbury Waterside Theatre

    11 - 15 February 2025

  • His Majesty's Theatre, Aberdeen

    18 - 22 February 2025

  • Alexandra Palace

    27 February - 8 March 2025

Creative Team

Writer - Sebastian Faulks
Adapter - Rachel Wagstaff
Director - Alastair Whatley
Designer - Richard Kent
Lighting Designer - Jason Taylor
Sound Designer - Dominic Bilkey
Composer - Sophie Cotton
Original Music Design - Tim van Eyken
Musical Director - James Findlay
Casting Director - Ellie Collyer-Bristow
Associate Director - Bethany West
Military Advisor - Tony Green
Props Supervisor - Katie Balmforth
Wigs Supervisor - Darren Ware
Dialect Coaches - Frankie Aaronovitch-Bruce and James Aitken
Fight & Intimacy Directors - Yarit Dor and Enric Ortuño

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