NEWS: Rehearsal images released for Jonathan Harvey's 'Hushabye Mountain': Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre's digital production.

 

REHEARSAL PHOTOGRAPHY RELEASED OF HOPE MILL THEATRE’S NEW ONLINE PRODUCTION OF JONATHAN HARVEY’S

HUSHABYE MOUNTAIN

LIVE STREAM FROM HOPE MILL THEATRE ON SATURDAY 5^th JUNE

THEN ONLINE FROM 11^th – 20^th JUNE 2021

 

Rehearsal photography has been released for the forthcoming online production of acclaimed writer Jonathan Harvey’s Hushabye Mountain, produced by Hope Mill Theatre in association with Stream.Theatre.

 

Directed by Nick Bagnall – who played Ben in the original production – Hushabye Mountain stars Matt Henry (Kinky Boots) as Lee, Jodie Prenger (A Taste of Honey) as Beryl, Layton Williams (Everybody’s Talking About Jamie) as Connor, Nathan McMullen (A Clockwork Orange) as Danny, Amy Dunn (Turn of the Screw) as Lana and Harrison Scott-Smith (making his professional debut) as Ben.

 

Hushabye Mountain will be streamed live on Saturday 5^th June, and then available online on 11^th, 12^th and 13^th June 2021 (All 7:30pm) and 18^th, 19^th and 20^th June 2021 (All 7:30pm with a 2:30pm Saturday Matinee). Hope Mill Theatre will be partnering with the following venues to show the production throughout the run:

 

The Turbine Theatre
Sheffield Crucible 
Liverpool Everyman
York Theatre Royal

Tickets are £17 to live steam and £15 for the recorded stream plus booking fees. Tickets are on sale and available from www.hopemilltheatre.co.uk, partner venue websites and www.stream.theatre .

 

There will also be a gala night held at Hope Mill on Saturday 12^th June, where Hushabye Mountain will be streamed in the theatre for audiences to watch at the venue. Tickets are £25 and include an arrival drink and popcorn and will include a post-show Q&A. 

 

Danny is a young man, waiting to be let into heaven. There seems to be some difficulty about it, but Judy Garland reassures him as she passes by in a boat full of stars. Away from the dreamlike and unexpected version of the afterlife, the people who were closest to Danny struggle with his death from AIDS. His partner Connor is flattened by grief, and groping awkwardly towards a new relationship. Connor’s brother Lee and his wife Lana, who was Danny’s best friend, find their new marriage overshadowed by the hole Danny's absence has left in their lives. And Danny’s mother Beryl, who had kept in contact via increasingly paranoid letters after Danny’s father disowned him, is now in a mental hospital and being updated by Judy Garland about her son’s progress towards heaven.

 

First performed in 1999 at the Lyceum Theatre, Crewe, Hushabye Mountain reveals a world that has learned to live with AIDS. It is a world full of love, pain, laughter and friendship, where drugs in their various combinations are exhilarating, destructive, costly and even life restoring.

 

LISTINGS INFORMATION

Hope Mill Theatre Presents the Online Production of

HUSHABYE MOUNTAIN

By Jonathan Harvey

 

11^th – 20^th June 2021

 

Live Steam Saturday 5^th June 2021

Recorded Streams 11th, 12th and 13th of June 2021 (All 7:30pm) and 18th, 19th and 20th of June 2021 (All 7:30pm with a 2:30pm Saturday Matinee).

 

Tickets: Tickets are £17 to live steam and £15 for the recorded stream plus booking fees per household plus booking fees where applicable. Tickets are on sale and available from www.hopemilltheatre.co.uk and www.stream.theatre .

Box Office: 0161 275 9141 (Monday – Friday 12pm-5pm), www.hopemilltheatre.co.uk / Partner venue websites / www.stream.theatre .

 

Directed by Nick Bagnall

Set and Costume Design by Jocelyn Meall

Lighting Design by Jai Morjaria

Projection Designer George Reeve

Costume Supervisor Anna Souter

Musical Arrangements by Tarek Merchant 

Cast: Matt Henry, Jodie Prenger, Layton Williams, Nathan McMullen, Amy Dunn and Harrison Scott-Smith.

 

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