Details

The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there. In the heat and humidity of the rural Norfolk summer in 1900, a young boy comes of age as he is unwittingly enlisted as a messenger in an adult affair of deceit and desire. This is the world premiere of a moving new musical adaptation of LP Hartley's beautifully wistful novel of naivety, nostalgia and the end of innocence, perhaps best known as a film of the same name starring Julie Christie and Alan Bates.

Cast/Performers

Edward Cooke (Leo - Leeds), Jake Abbott (Marcus - Leeds), William James Mercer, John James Cairns, Sophie Bould, Stuart Ward, James Staddon, Stephen Carlile, Philip Cox, Richard Kent, Fiona O'Carroll, Gemma Page, Chris Theo-Cook

Creatives/Company

Book by: David Wood (based on the novel by LP Hartley)
Music: Richard Taylor
Lyrics(s): David Wood, Richard Taylor
Producer(s): Derby Live, Royal & Derngate Northampton, West Yorkshire Playhouse
Director(s): Roger Haines, Simon Pittman (associate director), Pippa Ailion (casting)
Musical Director: Jonathan Gill
Design: Michael Pavelka
Lighting: Tim Lutkin
Sound: Mic Pool