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Birdsong

Tue 21 – Sat 25 Jan 2025
Main Stage, Theatre Royal

EVENT INFORMATION

Evenings: 7.30pm
Matinees: Thu 2pm, Sat 2.30pm
Running time: 2hrs 55mins (including 20min interval and 10min break)
Recommended: 15+, contains haze, smoke, loud noises, depictions and references of violence, suicide, war, domestic abuse, use of weapons, mutilation of animals (none harmed in the making of the show), smoking, alcohol, bad language, sexually explicit scenes, including depictions of oral and penetrative sex, topless female nudity and partial male nudity.
Captioned Perf: Sat 25 Jan, 2.30pm

Under 30s tickets available

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

There is nothing more than to love and be loved
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.

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.

Book early, secure your seat today
★★★★★

‘Riveting’

Telegraph

★★★★

‘Passionate and moving…’

The Reviews Hub

★★★★

‘A staggering achievement’

Daily Mail

★★★★★

‘Hauntingly beautiful… As full, erotic and glorious as true love should be…’

The Recs

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