TROUPE ANNOUNCES THE WORLD PREMIÈRE
OF NEW TWO-PART STAGE ADAPTATION OF
JOHN GALSWORTHY’S THE FORSYTE SAGA
AT PARK THEATRE IN AUTUMN 2024
Troupe in association with Park Theatre today announces the world première of a new stage adaptation of John Galsworthy’s seminal work, The Forsyte Saga, which will open in autumn 2024. Amplifying the unheard female voices in the story for the first time, and adapted by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan, the production will be staged in two parts The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene and The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleur. Josh Roche directs with full creative team and casting to be announced.
The production opens in Park200 at Park Theatre on 19 October 2024, with previews from 11 October 2024, and runs until 7 December 2024.
The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene and The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleur will play across alternate nights and run consecutively on matinee days.
Troupe’s Ashley Cook, said today: “I am so excited that we are bringing this superb story to life on the stage. To have award-winning writers of the calibre of Shaun McKennaandLin Coghlan create the adaptation for this world première, is especially thrilling – and with JMK Award winner, Josh Roche at the helm, we are in the best creative hands. As we assemble the full creative team and cast, I look forward to seeing the world of the Forsyte family emerge.”
Ashley Cook for Troupe
in association with Park Theatre presents
The world première of a new adaptation of
THE FORSYTE SAGA
By John Galsworthy
Adapted by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan
Director: Josh Roche
11 October – 7 December 2024
The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene at 3pm
The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleur at 7.30pm
‘’Now I know what Soames did, what my father did, I will never be able to not know it.’’
London, 1886. Wealthy solicitor Soames Forsyte is a man of property, and his beautiful wife Irene is his most prized possession. When he commissions an architect to build him a house in which to keep her, the cracks in their marriage finally begin to show, until something happens so shocking that it tears the Forsyte family apart. Years later, Soames’ daughter Fleur is haunted by the family secret when history begins to repeat itself…
John Galsworthy’s classic story The Forsyte Saga is newly dramatised for the stage in two parts by Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan, bringing the unheard female voices to the fore for the first time. Spanning 40 years from the last gasp of the Victorian age to the beginning of the roaring 1920s, this is an epic tale of sex, money and power. The Forsyte Saga was famously televised by the BBC in 1967 and was again serialised by ITV in 2002. Shaun McKenna and Lin Coghlan adapted the novels for BBC Radio 4 in 2016 under the title The Forsytes.
Novelist and playwright John Galsworthy (1867-1933) was educated at Harrow and studied law at New College, Oxford. The Man of Property (1906) began the novel sequence known as The Forsyte Saga, for which Galsworthy is chiefly remembered, followed by In Chancery (1920) and To Let (1921). The story of the Forsyte family after the war was continued in The White Monkey (1924), The Silver Spoon (1926), and Swan Song (1928), and two interludes A Silent Wooing and Passersby (1927) collected in A Modern Comedy (1929), and a collection of short stories On Forsyte Change (1930). John Galsworthy won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1932.
Shaun McKenna’s work for theatre includes The Lord of the Rings for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award for Best Musical (Watermill Theatre Newbury, Theatre Royal Drury Lane and Princess of Wales Theatre, Toronto – Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Musical), The Paradine Case, Wish You Were Dead, Looking Good Dead, The House on Cold Hill, The Perfect Murder, Dead Simple and Not Dead Enough (UK tours), Maddie (New York Theater Festival and Lyric Theatre), Boy on the Roof (Ted Shawn Theatre, Becket), Ladies In Lavender for which he won a BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Regional Play (Royal and Derngate, Northampton and UK tour), Last Dance (York Theatre, New York), Heidi and Heidi and Johanna (Walenstadt – Prix Walo Award nomination), La Cava (Victoria Palace Theatre and Piccadilly Theatre), Only You Can Save Mankind (Pleasance Edinburgh), Ruling Passions, How Green Was My Valley and To Serve Them All My Days (Royal and Derngate, Northampton),and Fever (Old Red Lion Theatre). Screen work includes The Crooked Man, Like Father Like Son, The Cuckoo,and Great West End Theatres. Radio credits include The Forsytes, and Home Front (BBC Audio Drama Award for Outstanding Contribution to Radio Drama).
Lin Coghlan’s theatre work includes Kingfisher Blue (Bush Theatre), Apache Tears (Clean Break – Peggy Ramsay Award), Mercy and Waking(Soho Theatre), The Miracle (National Theatre), Bretevski Street (Theatre Centre) and The Night Garden (National Theatre Studio and Northcott Theatre, Exeter). Screen work includes First Communion Day (Dennis Potter Play of the Year Award), Electric Frank (Leopard of Tomorrow Award at Toronto Film Festival), Some Dogs Bite (Audience Award at Nantes Film Festival) and Patrick’s Planet. Radio credits include The Forsytes.
Josh Roche directs. His credits for theatre include My Name is Rachel Corrie (Young Vic – JMK Award), Home (Minerva Theatre, Chichester), Orlando (59E59 Theaters, New York), Radio (Arcola Theatre), It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure (Soho Theatre and Underbelly Edinburgh – Underbelly Untapped Award), Winky (Soho Theatre), No Particular Order (Theatre503), Pennyroyal (Finborough Theatre – BroadwayWorld UK Award for Best Director), Magnificence and A Third (Finborough Theatre), I Feel Fine, Specie and Uninvited (New Diorama Theatre), Plastic (Old Red Lion Theatre and Mercury Theatre Colchester), and This Must Be The Place (VAULT Festival). Associate and Assistant Director work includes Dr Faustus and The Alchemist (RSC at Barbican Theatre), Death of a Salesman (RSC at Nöel Coward Theatre), The Taming of the Shrew (Shakespeare’s Globe, UK and international tours), Doctor Scroggy’s War (Shakespeare’s Globe), and Farinelli and the King (Duke of York’s Theatre).
The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene and The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleu
Listings
Park Theatre, Park 200
Clifton Terrace, Finsbury Park, London N4 3JP
Friday 11 October – Saturday 7 December 2024
The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene at 3pm
The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleur at 7.30pm
Monday to Saturdays at 7.30pm
Thursday and Saturday matinees at 3pm
The Forsyte Saga Part 1: Irene and The Forsyte Saga Part 2: Fleur will play across alternate nights and run consecutively on matinee days. For the full schedule, please see the website.
Captioned Saturday 26 October at 3pm (Part 1) and 7.30pm (Part 2)
Audio Described Saturday 2 November at 3pm (Part 1) and 7.30pm (Part 2)
Box Office: 020 7870 6876*
www.parktheatre.co.uk
* Telephone booking fee of £3 per transaction applies. All ticket prices are inclusive of a £1.50 building levy.
Ticket Prices
Previews (11 – 18 October 2024): £15 – £29.50
Standard (21 October – 7 December 2024): £22.50 – £47.50
Mon, Thu mat: 65+: £20 – £26.50
Access: £17.50
Concessions available – for further information, please see the website.
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