Birdsong
There is nothing more than to love and be loved.
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.
Riveting”
★★★★★ Telegraph
Telling the story of one man’s journey through an all-consuming love affair and into the horror of the First World War, this critically acclaimed show returns in a brand-new production.
A staggering achievement”
★★★★ Daily Mail
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.
Uniformly excellent”
★★★★ The Times
Starring award-winning actor Max Bowden, best known for the role of Ben Mitchell in Eastenders, and 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.
“Hauntingly beautiful… As full, erotic and glorious as true love should be… Alastair Whatley has directed an excellent cast in a piece that will live on in the memories in the same way as Faulks’ novel that inspired it… Urgent and powerful.”
★★★★★ The Recs
Utterly spellbinding”
Leeds Living
Price
From £19.50
Presented By
Original Theatre and JAS Theatricals in association with Joshua Beaumont & Huw Allen, Tiny Giant Entertainment, Birdsong Productions and Wiltshire Creative
Adapted By
Rachel Wagstaff
Directed By
Alastair Whatley
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.
Please note, no under 5s will be admitted to the auditorium.
Running time
Approximately 2 hours 55 minutes including 2 intervals
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Fess and Charges
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Venue
Rehearsal Images
Cast
Evans/Levi
Joseph Benjamin Baker
Joseph Benjamin Baker
Jack Firebrace
Max Bowden
Max Bowden
Tipper
Raif Clarke
Raif Clarke
Stephen Wraysford
James Esler
James Esler
Brennan
James Findlay
James Findlay
Turner
Dave Fishley
Dave Fishley
Lisette
Gracie Follows
Gracie Follows
Marquerite
Sulin Hasso
Sulin Hasso
Shaw/LeBrun
Tama Phethean
Tama Phethean
Jeanne
Natalie Radmall-Quirke
Natalie Radmall-Quirke
Bérard/Barclay
Roger Ringrose
Roger Ringrose
Isabelle Azaire
Charlie Russell
Charlie Russell
René Azaire/Gray