Venue: Theatre Royal
Running time: Doors open 1 hour before each performance starts. Approx. running times: 2 hours 55 minutes, including a 20 minute interval and second 10 minute interval break.
Important Information
Age Guidance: 15+
This production contains Pyros, Replica Weapons (not firing), Scenes of Sexual Nature, Nudity, Bad Language, Themes of War and Death, Abusive Behaviour, Smoke & Haze and Loud Noises.
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Original Theatre and JAS Theatricals in association with Joshua Beaumont & Huw Allen, Tiny Giant Entertainment, Birdsong Productions and Wiltshire Creative present
Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff
Directed by Alastair Whatley
There is nothing more than to love and be loved.
Starring award-winning actor Max Bowden, best known for the role of Ben Mitchell in EastEnders, James Esler (Litvinenko) and Charlie Russell (The Goes Wrong Show, And Then There Were None (BBC)).
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.
Cast and performance schedule subject to change without notice.
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Tuesday 15 October
7:30 PM
Wednesday 16 October
7:30 PM
Thursday 17 October
2:00 PM
Thursday 17 October
7:30 PM
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