The Invitation Theatre Company
The Hired Man
The Wharf Theatre, Devizes
Mar 20 and 21
After a sellout run in November last year in the Bear Hotel, this show left audiences completely thrilled, so the Devizes-based company seized the opportunity to hire The Wharf and do it again. Jemma Brown from TITCO said "This musical isn't well known, but once you've seen it, you literally are numbed by its brilliance - so to be doing it again, for two more nights, is really very special"
Acclaimed for its epic, nostalgic, funny book and rousing, romantic, award-winning score, The Hired Man is arguably the finest new British musical of the last thirty years. It tells the timeless, moving story of a young married couple and their struggle to carve a living from the land, just as the traditional rhythms of English country life are being swept away by the gathering storm of war in Europe.
It really is haunting, thrilling, stirring stuff.
The Hired Man is based on the novel by Melvyn Bragg, and brought to life by the heartbreakingly-beautiful music of Howard Goodall, the EMMY, BRIT and BAFTA award-winning composer and film and TV scores including themes for Blackadder, The Vicar of Dibley, Mr Bean and QI.
This little theatre company work their socks off to bring Music Theatre to life in a way that exceeds all expectations of a local theatre company. The cast in this show are exceptional so if you were lucky enough to get a ticket, as it sold out in February, I hope you have a really fantastic evening.
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