Friday 5 October 2018

Theatre: Return of a Soldier.......



The Return of the Soldier, by Charles Miller and Tim Sanders, is a musical adaptation of Rebecca West’s remarkable novella written at the end of World War One.

Set in Harrow during the summer of 1916, The Return of the Soldier is an intensely bitter-sweet tale, dissecting the very different love of three women for one man. When Christopher returns from the front, shell-shocked and with memory loss, there are profound consequences for all three women and their love. In the end, only an extraordinary sacrifice will restore the fragile status quo.

Composer Charles Miller puts a unique and contemporary twist on several English music styles from the period in his evocative score. Tim Sanders’ script aims to capture West’s sardonic and contemporary humour as well as her painfully accurate insights into human folly. This exciting new musical adaptation will bring a compelling story of war to a whole new generation.


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The four of us all agreed that we really enjoyed this. Acting was brilliant, story was brilliant, laugh out loud moments and quiet tearful moments too, however it was a musical and although all the cast have great voices and wonderful harmonies the main song was repeated too often to be relevant and just felt like stretching things out and I also hate "sung" dialogue which often had nothing tuneful about it, there were even some sentences that were spoken with the last few words sung out. Why?
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