The ensemble features Sioned Saunders as the onstage music director and Bridget Lappin as dance captain alongside Reece Causton, Kelly Coughlin, and Elliot Mackenzie. The company for The Lord of the Rings stars Folarin Akinmade as Gimli, Matthew Bugg as Gollum, Geraint Downing as Merry, Peter Dukes as Boromir, Amelia Gabriel as Pippin, Tom Giles as Elrond/Saruman, Charlotte Grayson as Rosie, Nuwan Hugh Perera as Sam, Georgia Louise as Galadriel, Peter Marinker as Gandalf, Louis Maskell as Frodo, Aoife O’Dea as Arwen, John O’Mahony as Bilbo, Yazdan Qafouri as Legolas, and Aaron Sidwell as Aragorn. Audiences join an ensemble cast and large-scale puppets on the story about the power of friendship and the common good. It then follows Frodo on the daunting and perilous task of journeying across Middle Earth to save them all from the Dark Lord Sauron. Taking place across Watermill's auditorium and gardens, the story is set on Bilbo Baggins' eleventy-first birthday when Bilbo gives Frodo a gold ring. Rahman ( Bombay Dreams, Slumdog Millionaire), Värttinä, and Christopher Nightingale ( Matilda the Musical). Tolkien trilogy featuring a book and lyrics by Shaun McKenna and Matthew Warchus, and music by A.R. theatre through October 15, The Lord of the Rings is an adaptation of the J.R.R. It does not store any personal data.An immersive, musical production of The Lord of the Rings is underway at Newbury's The Watermill Theatre beginning July 25. The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Performance". This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Other. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary". The cookie is set by GDPR cookie consent to record the user consent for the cookies in the category "Functional". The cookie is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Analytics". These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. I cried when I read the short story book a few years before the movie and I still cried and do so now of this writing, feeling the heartbreak and loneliness of Enis at the end. This movie, unto itself, is a celebration that there is hope for the empathy possible from our straight counterparts particularly in our current times of so much foment coming from the extreme right religiosity around the world. To this day, I celebrate the sensitivity straight people brought to a heart-wrenching love story between two men of a certain time and place. You had to know the life that was so closeted in those times, especially for those of us who were closer to the ‘rural’ scene. Ang Lee struck an incredible note of sensitivity to the times, for the story was one that transpired over years, not in the time of the movie’s release. That freshness translated into their believability and chemistry. These lamenters of “Brokeback Mountain” forget both Gyllenhaal and Ledger were only ‘actors-on-the-rise’ and still fresh faces to many of us in both the straight and gay realms. The only other ‘wide release movie’ I can think touches upon this kind of energy between the two main characters is “God’s Own Country”. Some seem riled that two straight actors got these roles or somehow the intimacy was ‘tame’?! I’m not sure what movie they were watching, because I came away feeling the intensity of the two characters.
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