From BBC Films based on the successful production at the National Theatre. London Road Musical drama, based on a true story. Guardian Extra members get top price tickets for £20 to see London Road at the National Theatre, Kate Fleetwood (Julie) in London Road, directed by Rufus Norris. Sign Up now. You wonder why it took so long for the authorities to address the local connection between drugs and prostitution. I missed this acclaimed piece of verbatim music-theatre when it opened at the Cottesloe last year. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian. Don't have a personal account yet? Stratford Festival Shakespeare Collection, Critical Studies and Performance Practice. London Road is a verbatim-theatre musical with book and lyrics by Alecky Blythe and music by Adam Cork. But I was unprepared for the complexity of Alecky Blythe's book or the frugal delicacy of Adam Cork's score, which explores the musical possibilities of everyday speech. London Road is a 2015 British musical mystery crime drama film directed by Rufus Norris and written by Adam Cork and Alecky Blythe based on their National Theatre musical of the same name, which in turn is based on the interviews about the Steve Wright killings. The Girlfriend Experience premiered at the Royal Court and then transferred to the Young Vic in 2009.

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Blythe's book starts with a meeting of the London Road neighbourhood watch, ... so Cork and Blythe between them have discovered a musical pattern in fragmentary verbatim dialogue. Your session is about to expire! But, while the show celebrates the healing process, it also raises disturbing questions about the dark underside of bourgeois togetherness.
And, for all the civic activity after the trauma, you sense a lingering relief that a social problem has been brutually solved. The focus, in fact, is less on the killings themselves than on a community's attempt to reconstitute itself through floral competitions and quiz nights.

Blythe's book starts with a meeting of the London Road neighbourhood watch, which has re-formed in response to the killings: instantly we are into that world of tea-and-biscuits and localised do-gooding rarely captured on the British stage. Musical drama, based on a true story. She has written several plays, including the acclaimed 2011 musical London Road.Her first play Come Out Eli won a Time Out Award. With a personal account, you can save books, chapters, images or other items to view later. missed this acclaimed piece of verbatim music-theatre when it opened at the Cottesloe last year. After the bodies of five women are found in Ipswich, the local residents come together to try and process what has happened.

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This is not just about London Road but about any residential area in Britain. If you belong to such an institution please Log In, Use your personal account to save 'favourite' articles, chapters and books. Please visit our Home page or try using the Search, Explore or Browse links above to find what you are looking for. Read about our approach to external linking. We're sorry, but that page can’t be found. This programme is not currently available on BBC iPlayer. Rufus Norris's production and Katrina Lindsay's design also deftly evoke the community's transition from a period of terror to one of entrapment, symbolised by a maze of police incident tape, to restoration as floral baskets descend from the Olivier ceiling. The film stars Olivia Colman, Anita Dobson and Tom Hardy. Please try again.
After the bodies of five women are found in Ipswich, the local residents come together to try and process what has happened. But I was unprepared for the complexity of Alecky Blythe's book or the frugal delicacy of Adam Cork's score, which explores the musical possibilities of everyday speech. A previous Blythe show about seaside sex workers, The Girlfriend Experience, smacked of condescension. But the show's originality lies in the way Cork has helped to shape and reorder verbatim speech to create a piece of choric theatre. In 2006, Ipswich was shattered by the discovery of the bodies of five women over a six-week period. Are you sure you want to remove the alert? At times, the repetitions are almost Handelian; but a more relevant comparison was supplied by a friend who invoked TS Eliot's verse fragment, Sweeney Agonistes, once set to music by John Dankworth. It is about the impact on the community around London Road in Ipswich of the series of murders carried out there by Steve Wright in 2006, and the frenzied media interest that ensued. Please update your browser version or manually copy the content. Just as Eliot utilised the rhythms of demotic speech ("These fellows always get pinched in the end", "Excuse me, they don't always get pinched in the end"), so Cork and Blythe between them have discovered a musical pattern in fragmentary verbatim dialogue. Alecky Blythe is a British playwright and screenwriter. But this one not only explores the way it takes a crisis to engender community spirit but opens up rich possibilities for musical theatre. Phrases like "I've got nearly 17 hanging baskets in this back garden" and "Everyone's very, very nervous" echo through the action so that they acquire a poetic intensity. This miraculously innovative show finds a new way of representing reality. And an 11-strong ensemble play multiple characters – with Kate Fleetwood, Nick Holder and Nicola Sloane outstanding as leading lights in Neighbourhood Watch. Playwright Alecky Blythe worked with composer Adam Cork after recording the local residents who had been affected by the murders, and their reactions to being caught in the subsequent media storm.

I was well aware that it was based on interviews with residents of a single Ipswich street where five sex workers where murdered in 2006. Conventional musicals, even at their best, take us into a world of fantasy. I was well aware that it was based on interviews with residents of a single Ipswich street where five sex workers where murdered in 2006. Are you sure you want to remove the page from "My Saved Items"?