Full cast & creative team announced for world premiere of THE MOZART QUESTION

Photo credit: Alex Tabrizi

The Barn Theatre have announced the full cast and creative team of the world premiere production of The Mozart Question, which runs at the Cirencester venue from 21 March-30 April.

Vicki Berwick’s theatrical adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s beloved novel The Mozart Question will be the fourth production based on Morpurgo’s work to be staged at the theatre and continues their ongoing relationship with the internationally best-selling author.

The Mozart Question follows acclaimed violinist Paolo Levi as he recounts, to a young reporter, his family’s connection to the Holocaust and the power of music in the hardest of times. The new adaptation of Morpurgo’s haunting tale of love, secrets and survival will be directed by Jessica Daniels and comprise of an actor-musician ensemble with composition, arrangements and musical supervision by Rudy Percival.

The production also features design by Ceci Calf, movement direction by Mark Conway, lighting by Sam Rowcliffe-Tanner, and sound by Benjamin Hudson.

The full cast are: Matt Ray Brown (The Inheritance, Henry V), Ian Harris (Treasure Island), Phyllis Ho (Life of Pi), Elzbieta Kalicka (The Brothers Grimm Present: Cinderella), Lara Lewis (The Hired Man), Matthew Romain (The Recruiting Officer, The Brothers Grimm Present: Cinderella), Mikey Tsoukkas (professional stage debut), Eleanor Turiansky (professional stage debut) and Emma Whittaker (The Green Fairy).

Michael Morpurgo said: “...It is the most important story I have ever written, about the best and most beautiful and most heavenly that is in us, and the worst and most wicked and most hellish too. I have no doubt the Barn are creating a play worthy of the immensity of the tragedy, a play that reflects the power of music to heal, to bring reconciliation and peace in a troubled world.”

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