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| Brighton Rock | Brighton Rock tickets from London Ticket Web | Play Closed November 2004 | Brighton Rock Musical with music by John Barry, lyrics by Don Black and book by Giles Havergal based on the novel by Graham Greene. Directed by Michael Attenborough with designs by Lez Brotherston, lighting by Tim Mitchell, choreography by Karen Bruce and sound by John Leonard.
Whitsun weekend, Brighton, 1937. Three deaths, one marriage and a walk on the pier...
Based on the classic novel by Graham Greene, Brighton Rock is a musical drama set in gangland Brighton, full of smoky pubs, seedy boarding houses and men carrying razors, led by the notorious mobster 'Pinkie'.
Caught up in the violence of the weekend, the only incriminating witness to a murder is Rose, a 16-year old Catholic girl with a memory for faces and eyes only for Pinkie. A wedding would buy her silence, although Pinkie doesn't believe in love and marriage.
But then again ... till death do us part?
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| BRIGHTON ROCK
Almeida Theatre
Almeida Street, Islington, London, N1 1TA
Nearest Tube: Highbury & Islington or Angel (allow for walk)
Opened 5 October 2004
Closes 13 November 2004
Performance Times:
Evenings: Monday to Saturday at 7.30pm
Matinees: Wednesday at 2.30pm and Saturday at 3.00pm
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| | What's New | Brighton Rock - Play Closed November 2004 John Barry has written music for over 100 films; his 11 James Bond scores include Goldfinger and Thunderball. He has won five Oscars; for Born Free (song & score), The Lion in Winter, Out of Africa and Dances with Wolves. He has also written four stage musicals including Billy, written in collaboration with Don Black. |
| Theatre Review | Brighton Rock Graham Greene and the stage musical are unlikely bedfellows... How can the novelist's unwieldy material be wedded to chorus lines and swelling crescendos? The answer is 'with difficulty Yet this strange hybrid of a show is 'perfectly watchable'... Michael Attenborough's ingenious direction... This Brighton Rock is sweet. The Daily Mail
If you yearn, as I do, for a return to that late-fifties golden age of British stage musicals... the good news is that Brighton Rock is a rare throwback to that great tradition. Michael Attenborough has achieved a production of brilliant clarity on various levels - those of the plot and dialogue and , more visibly, of Lez Brotherston's pier-end setting... It's dialogue and plot crackle with a sheer electrifying force of evil... If you thought there was no such thing as an intelligent, edgy, adult musical that gives you something to think about instead of just something to sing about, here it is and hooray for that.
The Daily Express
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