"10. The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry Staging a bestselling book that has already been adapted into a film starring bona fide national treasures (Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton) might have been daunting. But, in Chichester, Katy Rudd's musical of a man's Bunyanesque journey to visit a dying woman met that challenge with lo-fi eccentricity and folksy songs with a foot-stomping spirit (composed by Michael Rosenberg, AKA Passenger). In the West End from 29 January. Read the review"
"9. The Railway Children As site-specific shows go, this adaptation of E Nesbit's classic was hard to top. It began with a ride on a vintage stream train in West Yorkshire, depositing the audience in a disused engine shed at Oxenhope. The story was given an Anglo-Indian twist and Joanna Scotcher's stupendous set design incorporated track lines. There was one monumental set piece after another, including a train chugging in. Read the review Monumental The Railway Children, Oxenhope."
Katy Rudd's musical The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry translated a bestselling novel into a lo-fi, folksy show with music by Michael Rosenberg and a West End transfer. The Railway Children used a vintage steam train and a disused engine shed to create immersive, site-specific theatre with an Anglo-Indian twist and dramatic set pieces. Emily Burns's modern-dress Measure for Measure removed comic elements to foreground sexual coercion and hypocrisy, giving Isabella freedom in a darker interpretation. Kip Williams's The Maids modernized Genet with smartphone projections to evoke influencer culture and online image-making.
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