Brokeback Mountain performs @sohoplace 10 May – 12 August 2023
The world premiere of Brokeback Mountain, a brand new play with music, written by Ashley Robinson with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells primarily based on Annie Proulx’s brief story will open @sohoplace in May. Directed by Jonathan Butterell, Brokeback Mountain stars Mike Faist as Jack and Lucas Hedges as Ennis, each making their West End stage debuts. The manufacturing sees Jonathan Butterell and Dan Gillespie Sells (The Feeling), creators of the hit musical and movie Everybody’s Talking About Jamie, reuniting with Producer Nica Burns.
Wyoming 1963: a wild panorama the place individuals dwell in excessive rural poverty in tight, insular and conservative communities. When Ennis and Jack take jobs on the remoted Brokeback Mountain, all their certainties of life change without end as they flounder in sudden emotional waters of accelerating depth. Dan Gillespie-Sells lovely Country and Western songs weave heartbreakingly by this intense story of an unresistible and hidden love spanning twenty years and its tragic penalties.
This is a play with unique music by Dan Gillespie Sells, carried out by the extraordinary singer, Eddi Reader, joined by her onstage Country and Western band: Sean Green (piano/MD), Meelie Traill (upright bass), Julian Jackson (chromatic harmonica), BJ Cole (pedal metal guitar).