The stage premiere of the world-famous novel.
Susie Salmon is just like any other young girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There’s one big difference though – Susie is dead.
Now she can only observe while her family manage their grief in their different ways. Her father, Jack is obsessed with identifying the killer. Her mother, Abigail is desperate to create a brighter future. And her sister, Lindsay is discovering the opposite sex with experiences that Susie will never know. Susie is desperate to help them and there might be a way of reaching them…
Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that captured the hearts of readers throughout the world. Award-winning playwright Bryony Lavery has adapted it for this uplifting play about life after loss.
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WOW this was amazing and had me laughing a little and crying too but mostly just wide eyed amazed!
I was totally drawn into the whole story powerfully told.
Some clever simple effects like the salt drawn boundaries, or climbing through a wooden frame to represent going down through the tap door. Not so simple was the set which was actually made up of a huge screen which together with the lighting was mirrors so some of the time we could see through them and some of the time the whole stage was reflected upside down, like heaven looking down on life.
They totally deserved our standing ovation!
Once again R used our spare ticket and she thoroughly enjoyed it too.
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3 comments:
The book made me cry so much. Couldn't go there again. Possibly better if you don't know the book though?
I haven't read the book and never really like doing both as you can't help comparing. I didn't get a chance to chat this through with R afterwards and wondered how differently a teen and a grandmother were affected by it.
Oh that would be interesting, getting R's perspective on it.
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