Sebastian Faulks’s

BIRDSONG

2024 and 2025 UK Tour & Alexandra Palace

Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff

Directed by Alastair Whatley

There is nothing more than to love and be loved.

Sebastian Faulks’s epic tale of love and loss returns to the stage in a brand-new production marking the 30th anniversary of the international best-selling novel.

In pre-war France, a young Englishman, Stephen Wraysford, embarks on a passionate and dangerous affair with the beautiful Isabelle Azaire that turns their world upside down. As the war breaks out over the idyll of his former life, Stephen must lead his men through the carnage of the Battle of the Somme and through the sprawling tunnels that lie deep underground. Faced with the unprecedented horror of the war Stephen clings to the memory of Isabelle as his world explodes around him.

A mesmerising story of love and courage, set both before and during the Great War. Once seen never forgotten.

Adapted by Rachel Wagstaff (The Girl on the Train, Flowers for Mrs Harris) and produced by the award-winning Original Theatre. Starring award-winning actor Max Bowden (EastEnders), James Esler (Litvinenko) and Charlie Russell (The Goes Wrong Show, BBC’s And Then There Were None).