'Got me hook, line and sinker'
★★★★★The Times
Performance trailer (2015)
'A real masterpiece'
★★★★★Mail on Sunday
Audience reaction trailer (2015)
'easily the best Carousel since Nicholas Hytner's National Theatre revival nearly 20 years ago'
★★★★
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The Music
'a rich piece of musical theatre'
★★★★The Daily Telegraph
The Story
Set in a tight-knit fishing community on the New England coastline, Carousel revolves around the ill-fated love affair between charismatic Billy Bigelow, a travelling carnival man, and trusting Julie Jordan, a worker at the local mill. Having married against everyone's advice only weeks after they first met, their budding relationship hits a rocky road as Billy struggles with his temper, the constraints of settling down and financial difficulties. It is only after learning that he is soon to become a father that Billy vows to change his ways and provide for his family. But he falls in with the wrong crowd and dies in the aftermath of a robbery gone horribly wrong.
Sent to purgatory for 15 years after his death, Billy is given one day to redeem his soul before he is permitted to enter the Heavenly Gates. Trying to perform a single good deed, he seeks out his daughter, now a rebellious teenager destined to follow in his troubled footsteps. Billy reaches out to her, but is it too little too late, or will it be enough to change both their lives forever?
'Will have you choking back tears'
★★★★Time Out
Production photography
