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Times
16-05-2025
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- Times
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry — a pitch-perfect musical version
★★★★★In 2012 Rachel Joyce achieved unexpected literary success with her miraculously ordinary, defiantly down-to-earth novel about a man who goes out to post a letter and ends up walking the length of England. This humane, wryly funny musical is the latest art form to celebrate the fictional Harold Fry — a retired man who measures out his life in lawnmowing sessions until a message from a dying former colleague inspires an odyssey from Devon to Berwick. Mark Addy plays Harold just two years after a film of the book, starring Jim Broadbent and Penelope Wilton, opened to mixed reviews. Why risk a musical then, sceptics might ask. Yet this assured, pitch-perfect production — with a ravishing indie-folk score by Passenger — quickly dispels any
Times
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Times
Rachel Joyce: My favourite read is like Emma Bovary meets Quentin Tarantino
Born in 1962, Rachel Joyce worked as a nanny, door-to-door saleswoman, barmaid and actress. And although she has written since she was a child, her debut novel, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry, was not published until she was 50. She has more than made up for the time: Harold Fry won a National Book award, was longlisted for the Booker prize and, more recently, adapted into a film starring Jim Broadbent. She has since published six other novels, including Miss Benson's Beetle, Maureen Fry and the Angel of the North and The Homemade God. I am lucky enough as a radio writer to have adapted several of the classics for BBC Radio 4, but the one I always wanted — and
BBC News
13-02-2025
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- BBC News
Sussex: Chichester Festival Theatre unveils 2025 programme
Top Hat, Lord of the Flies and a musical version of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry are among the offerings this year at a theatre in West Chichester Festival Theatre's 2025 season also consists of the venue's first ever production of Hamlet, while its new studio space, The Nest, will be unveiled in Addy, Natalie Dormer, and Beverley Knight are among the performers who will be involved this director Justin Audibert told BBC Radio Sussex that the summer musical Top Hat would be "wonderful" and that director Kathleen Marshall was "magic". "[She] can do that thing where you have 30 people doing a tap dancing number and filling up your soul with pure joy," he promises to be a big month, with The Three Little Pigs and a first stage adaptation of Matt Haig's contemporary classic, A Boy Called Christmas, among the productions slated for the festive season. Meanwhile, guest director Anoushka Shankar, the Grammy-nominated musician, has announced the line-up for Brighton Festival 2025 which will run from May year there will be seven world premieres - including Wembley, which was written in the aftermath of the 2024 will be 120 events and exhibitions during the festival period, 45 of which will be free.
