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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

Credits

Cast 

Charlotte Beaumont – Susie Salmon 

Jack Sandle – Jack Salmon 

Emily Bevan – Abigail Salmon 

Ayoola Smart – Lindsey Salmon 

Keith Dunphy – Mr.Harvey 

Pete Ashmore – Len Fenerman/Samuel Heckler 

Bhawna Bhawsar – Ruana Singh/Franny 

Susan Bovell – Lynn/Cop/Mrs Flanagan 

Natasha Cottriall – Ruth Connors/Buckley Salmon 

Karan Gill – Ray Singh/Principal Caden 

 

Creative Team

Bryony Lavery Playwright

Melly Still – Director 

Ana Inés Jabares-Pita – Designer 

Matt Haskins – Lighting Designer 

Helen Skiera – Sound Designer 

Mike Ashcroft – Movement Director

Dave Price Composer

Emily Mytton – Puppetry

Polly Jerrold – Casting Director

Lucy Bird – Assistant Director  

Charmian Hoare – Voice and Dialect Coach 

 

Stage Management 

Tom Nickson – Production Manager

Sara Crathorne – Company Stage Manager 

Robyn Hayes – Deputy Stage Manager 

Ellie Sanders – Assistant Stage Manager

Darren Abel – Assistant Stage Manager

Ben Hales, Finn Peters, Ben Castle – Musicians for Soundtrack

 

Reviews

Trailer

Reviews and Programme

Reviews

★★★★★ “A theatrical triumph” TheatreCat

★★★★ “A mesmerising spectacle” The Guardian

★★★★ “Great skill” The Times

★★★★ Chronicle Live

“Bold, imaginative and moving” Exeunt Magazine

Programme

View the programme for The Lovely Bones.