London Road
book and lyrics by Alecky Blythe
music and lyrics by Adam Cork
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5 STARS Evening Standard, Financial Times, Independent, Independent on Sunday, Mail on Sunday, Metro, Sunday Express, Sunday Times, Time Out
'A quietly stunning achievement.' Sunday Times
‘Captivating… A startling, magically original success.’ Evening Standard
'Extraordinary… An astonishingly daring and original piece of theatre.’ Financial Times
'One of the most exciting experimental pieces the National has ever presented.’ Independent
'Excitingly innovative... Don't miss.' Independent on Sunday
‘Glaringly original… A quietly revolutionary night of theatre.’ Metro
‘This is something very new for the musical form… Raw humanity captured in music.’ Time Out
London Road documents the real-life events of autumn 2006, when the everyday life of the quiet rural town of Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women.
Adam Cork's music uses the melodic speech patterns captured on playwright Alecky Blythe’s extensive recorded interviews with the people of Ipswich to create this extraordinary new work.
World Premiere
Read an article by Maddy Costa in the Guardian
Captioned performance: Monday 18 July at 7.30pm
London Road finished on: 27 August 2011
