BIRDSONG ON THE HORIZON
Birdsong
Darlington Civic Theatre
Tuesday March 10 to Saturday March 14
Photo: Jack Ladenburg
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Peter Duncan, Edmund Wiseman and Emily Bowker head the cast of Rachel
Wagstaff’s powerfully emotional stage adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel Birdsong at Darlington Civic Theatre
in March.
Peter Duncan returns to Birdsong
as Jack Firebrace, having played the role in the 2014 tour. Though
perhaps best known as a Blue Peter presenter, Peter began his acting career in the 1970s
when he joined the National Theatre. Recent theatre credits include Denry
Machin in The Card (for which he received an Olivier nomination for Best Actor
in a Musical), Alan Ayckbourn‘s Things We Do For Love, Stan Laurel in Laurel
and Hardy, Macduff in Macbeth and Fantastic Mr Fox, both at the Open Air
Theatre in Regent’s Park.
Edmund Wiseman, whose
recent theatre credits include Richard II (RSC/Barbican), Duchess of Malfi (White
Bear Theatre) and Filumena (Almeida), and Emily Bowker, whose recent roles
include A Bunch of Amateurs (The Watermill) and What the Women Did (Two’s
Company/Southwark Playhouse), play the romantic leads of Stephen Wraysford and
Isabelle Azaire. Also in the cast are Emily Altneu, Max Bowden (currently
Justin Fitzgerald in BBC One’s Waterloo Road), Selma Brook, James Findlay, Roger Martin,
Liam McCormick, James Staddon, Cloudia Swann and Alastair Whatley.
Commemorating the
First World War, Birdsong tells
a mesmerising story of love and courage, before and during the 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 worlds upside down. As the war breaks out,
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 and the idyll of his former life as his world
explodes around him.
The 2013 and 2014
tours were hugely successful, seen by over 130,000 people and receiving four
and five star reviews, with audiences calling the show ‘simply stunning’.
On The Web:
Website: http://www.birdsongthetour.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/birdsongthetour
Facebook: www.facebook.com/BirdsongTheTour
Tickets:
Birdsong runs at Darlington Civic Theatre from
Tuesday March 10 to Saturday March 14. Tickets* are priced from £17.
To book contact the Box Office on 01325 486 555 or visit www.darlingtoncivic.co.uk
*Includes a £1 restoration levy
Free post show talk
Wednesday 11 March - Stay
behind after the show to take part in a Q&A with some of the cast. Booking
not necessary.
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