Nica Burns as we speak broadcasts the total forged and inventive staff for 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, and directed by Jonathan Butterell. Introducing Emily Fairn (The Responder) making her stage debut as Alma, Paul Hickey (Older Ennis) and Martin Marquez (Joe/Bill/Jack’s Father) becoming a member of the beforehand introduced Mike Faist (Jack), Lucas Hedges (Ennis), and Eddi Reader because the Balladeer along with her onstage band Sean Green, Meelie Traill, Julian Jackson and BJ Cole.
Completing the artistic staff alongsidethe beforehand introduced Tom Pye (Set & Costume Design), David Finn (Lighting Design), Christopher Shutt (Sound Design) are Shaheen Baig (Casting Director), Tommy Ross-Williams (Intimacy Director), Kevin McCurdy (Fight Director), Phil Wilding (Production Manager), Zeb Lalljee (Costume Supervisor), Sam Cox (Wigs Maker/Supervisor), Lily Mollgaard (Props Supervisor), and Mary Irwin and Ben Furey (Vocal/Dialect Coach).
Brokeback Mountain @sohoplace opens on 10 May, with press evening on 18 May, and runs for a restricted season till 12 August 2023.
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 eternally as they flounder in sudden emotional waters of accelerating depth. Dan Gillespie-Sells stunning Country and Western songs weave heartbreakingly by means of this intense story of an unresistible and hidden love spanning twenty years and its tragic penalties.
This is a play with authentic 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).