NS Archive 2018: The Lovely Bones

Tue 9 – Sat 20 Oct 2018

Susie Salmon is just like any other girl. She wants to be beautiful, adores her charm bracelet and has a crush on a boy from school. There’s one big difference through – Susie is dead. 

Susie can only observe while her family cope with their grief in different ways. Her father Jack is obsessed with identifying the killer. Her mother Abigail is desperate to create a brighter future. And her sister Lindsay is discovering the opposite sex with experiences that Susie will never know. 

Susie is desperate to help them… and there might be a way of reaching them. 

Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones is a unique coming-of-age tale that captured the hearts of readers throughout the world. Award winning playwright Bryony Lavery has adapted it for this uplifting play about life after loss.  

A co-production between Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Royal and Derngate and Northern Stage in association with the Liverpool Everyman.

The Lovely Bones toured to Royal and Derngate, Liverpool Everyman, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, New Wolsey Theatre, Theatre Royal Nottingham, Exeter Northcott Theatre, Norwich Theatre Royal, The Lowry Salford, Rose Theatre Kingston, London Hackney Empire, Cambridge Arts Theatre, Oxford Playhouse, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre Guildford, Chichester Festival Theatre