NEW DATES ADDED TO
THE 2016 NATIONAL TOUR OF
WILLIAM NICHOLSON’S SHADOWLANDS
THE LOVE STORY OF C.S. LEWIS AND JOY DAVIDMAN
New dates have been added to the critically acclaimed 2016 national tour of William Nicholson’s SHADOWLANDS, directed by Alastair Whatley and produced by Birdsong Productions. Reading, Cambridge, Plymouth, Colchester, Bury St Edmunds and Aylesbury have all been added to the tour schedule.
The cast of SHADOWLANDS is led by Stephen Boxer (Humans, The Iron Lady, Doctors) as C.S. Lewis, Denis Lill (The Royal, Only Fools and Horses, Rumpole of the Bailey) as Major W.H. Lewis ‘Warnie’ and Amanda Ryan (The Forsyte Saga, Shameless) as Joy Davidman. They are joined by Simon Shackleton as Professor Christopher Riley, Jeffrey Harmer as Rev ‘Harry’ Harrington, Ian Marr as Alan Gregg, Richard Holliday as Dr Maurice Oakley and Shannon Rewcroft as Douglas, with Holly Smith and Alistair Higgins playing multiple supporting roles.
SHADOWLANDS, by William Nicholson, tells the love story of C.S. Lewis, Oxford don and author of The Chronicles of Narnia and The Screwtape Letters, and American poet Joy Davidman. What begins as a formal meeting of two very different minds slowly develops into a feeling of connection and love. Lewis finds his quiet life with his brother Warnie disrupted by the outspoken, feisty Davidman, whose uninhibited behaviour offers a sharp contrast to the rigid sensibilities of the male-dominated university. Each provides the other with new ways of viewing the world, but Lewis’s Christian faith is tested when Joy is diagnosed with cancer.
SHADOWLANDS won the Evening Standard Drama Award for Best Play in 1990 and Nicholson was nominated for a Tony Award when it transferred to Broadway. The film version, which starred Anthony Hopkins and Debra Winger, won Best British Film at the 1994 BAFTAs and Nicholson was nominated for a Best Screenplay nomination.
This major revival of SHADOWLANDS is produced by Birdsong Productions, the people behind the critically-acclaimed and hugely successful touring productions of Birdsong and Flare Path, in association with Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre.
SHADOWLANDS is directed by Alastair Whatley and designed by Anne-Marie Woodley and Alastair Whatley, with lighting design by Alex Wardle for Charcoalblue, sound design by Dominic Bilkey and music by Mia Soteriou.
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2016 TOUR SCHEDULE
5 – 9 April Ashcroft Theatre, Croydon 020 8688 9291
11 – 16 April Festival Theatre, Malvern 01684 892277
19 – 23 April Connaught Theatre, Worthing 01903 206 206
26 – 30 April CAST Theatre, Doncaster 01302 303 959
*3 – 5 May The Hexagon, Reading 0118 960 6060
16 – 21 May Pomegranate Theatre, Chesterfield 01246 345 222
23 – 28 May Cambridge Arts Theatre 01223 503 333
31 May – 4 June Birmingham Repertory Theatre 0121 236 4455
6 – 11 June Theatre Royal Plymouth 01752 267 222
13 – 18 June New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth 023 9264 9000
21 – 25 June New Theatre, Cardiff 029 2087 8889
28 June – 2 July Exeter Northcott Theatre 01392 726363
4 – 9 July Mercury Theatre, Colchester 01206 573 948
11 – 16 July Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds 01284 769 505
18 – 23 July Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury 0844 871 7607
25 July – 30 July Richmond Theatre 0844 871 7651
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*N.B The role of Major W.H. Lewis ‘Warnie’ will be played by Richard Holliday at this venue