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London Road
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Synopsis
London Road documents the events of 2006, when the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women. Adam Cork's music uses the melodic speech patterns captured on Alecky Blythe's recorded interviews with the people of Ipswich to create this extraordinary work.
London Road won both the Critics' Circle Best Muscial Award 2011 and our own Whatsonstage.com Award 2012 for best ensemble. Following a sell-out run in the Cottesloe last year, the award-winning production returns, this time to the Olivier Theatre.
Rufus Norris directs a cast including Clare Burt, Kate Fleetwood, Hal Fowler, Nick Holder, Claire Moore, Michael Shaeffer, Nicola Sloane, Paul Thornley and Duncan Wisbey.
Our Review:
Michael Coveney - 2 August 2012
Usually, people sing on the stage when mere words are no longer enough. Breaking every rule in the musical theatre book, London Road makes everyday speech remarkable by putting mere words in relief, finding rich patterns in the verbal wallpaper.
And this makes for a still-riveting evening of theatre in Rufus Norris's award-winning production (including a Whatsonstage.com award for best ensemble performance), which has moved effortlessly, seamlessly, from the Cottesloe, where it opened last April, onto the wider, deeper Olivier stage as part of the ongoing Travelex £12 season.
This is a portrait of a Suffolk community in a state of shock and awe at the murder of five Ipswich prostitutes in 2006. And it's almost impossible for one to separate the contributions of Norris, the actors, the designer Katrina Lindsay, the lighting designer James Farncombe and musical director [David Shrubso...
Latest User Review
Cassox - 1 September 2012:
Still brilliant, but it looses it's village'esque intimacy in the largeness of the Olivier auditorium....
Cast
Clare Burt
Kate Fleetwood
Hal Fowler
Nick Holder
Claire Moore
Michael Shaeffer
Nicola Sloane
Paul Thornley
Duncan Wisbey
Creative
Alecky Blythe (Book)
Alecky Blythe (Lyrics)
Adam Cork (Music)
Adam Cork (Lyrics)
National Theatre (Producer)
Rufus Norris (Director)
Katrina Lindsay (Design)
Bruno Poet (Lighting)
David Shrubsole (Musical Director)
Paul Arditt (Sound)
Javier de Frutos (movement) (Director)
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