![]() ![]() The lighting, designed by Nick Richings, is often harsh with dark shadows - suggesting that disasters are only just around the corner. All of this effectively sets up why the children behave as they do, but in the end we accept that Swallow's faith in The Man (played by Australian actor Tim Rogers) is not because she is gullible, but because she wants her mother back and needs to believe "Jesus" can arrange it.įrom the outset, Kenwright's production has an edgy quality. ![]() We focus on 15-year-old Swallow (played by Claire Marlowe) and her two siblings (Henrietta Touquet and Christopher Thomas) whose world has been turned upside down by the premature death of their mother, just before Christmas. Mary Hayley Bell's original novel was set in Sussex, the 1961 film starring her daughter, Hayley Mills, moved to Lancashire while in this production the action has transferred to Louisiana in the late 1950s: the heart of the Bible Belt where innocence and unquestioning faith survive and religious fervour is positively encouraged. ![]() On the face of it, the premise of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical doesn't sound very plausible - a group of children come across an escaped prisoner in a barn and are so convinced he's Jesus Christ that they hide him from the authorities. ![]()
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