BIRDSONG Assembly Hall Theatre: Mon 24 Feb – Sat 1 Mar 2014
A NATIONAL TOUR IN THE CENTENARY YEAR OF THE OUTBREAK OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
BIRDSONG ADAPTED BY RACHEL WAGSTAFF FROM THE SEBASTIAN FAULKS NOVEL
In 2014, the year that will mark 100 years since the outbreak of the First World War, Rachel Wagstaff’s stage adaptation of BIRDSONG, from the novel by Sebastian Faulks, will tour the UK.
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.
Birdsong has become a classic of modern English literature and is taught on both the English and History syllabuses at schools and universities. Regularly voted as one of the nation’s all-time favourite books, it has sold more than two million copies in the United Kingdom and more than three million worldwide.
The 2013 tour received 4- and 5-star reviews and audiences called the show ‘simply stunning’. Sebastian Faulks is thrilled the show is re-mounting for 2014 stating: “Both Rachel and I want this to be the definitive version of Birdsong on stage. The audience watch it and think, thank God I have never undergone all of this. These experiences are far outside the lives of most people but there is something about the way the production works which makes people identify and think, it could be me…”
The tour of BIRDSONG will continue to support Help for Heroes, after raising over £50,000 through collections and events on the 2013 tour.
Mon 24 Feb – Sat 1 Mar (no show on Thu)
Box office 01892 530613
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