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Dateline: 20th May, 2007
Newbury's Watermill Theatre is to revive the Alain Boublil and Claude-Michel Schönberg musical Martin Guerre from 11th July to 1st September. The creative team behind last year's Hot Mikado - Director Craig Revel Horwood, musical supervisor and arrangemer Sarah Travis' designer Diego Pitarch, lighting designer Richard G Jones and sound designer Gary Dixon - will be reunited for the revival. As is becoming the norm for the Watermill, the cast will consist of actor/musicians: Andrew Bevis, Esther Biddle, Thil Ben Goddard, Michael Howcroft, Karen Mann, Kelly O’Leary, Kit Orton, Rosie Timpson, James Traherne, Jez Unwin, Susannah Van Den Berg and Johnson Willis. Martin Guerre is a passionate tale of love and betrayal, desertion and desire unfolds in the midst of the peasant community in the French village of Artigat. In the shadow of the revolution a young wife welcomes back her husband lost without trace years before. With the return of Martin Guerre, the future of the village is secure, its Catholic faith protected from the threatening Protestant cloud that gathers overhead. But Martin is not all that he seems. An extraordinary case of identity theft culminates in an emotional courtroom drama. A story of deception, dishonour and revenge, or one of romance, honour and the need to belong? The show has had a chequered history, never achieving the popularity of Boublil and Schönberg's Les Misérables and Miss Saigon. Its time at the Prince Edward, where it premiered in 1996, was split in two when it was taken off for three weeks for major revisions. Please note that all three Archive indices are very long and will therefore take some time to download.
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