Following its London opening earlier this yr, the world premiere manufacturing of Farm Hall could have its Scottish premiere at Perth Theatre from Tuesday 3 till Saturday 7 October.
The debut play by Katherine Moar who studied History on the University of Edinburgh, the solid contains Scottish actor Forbes Masson returning to the Theatre the place he started his profession and acting on a Scottish stage for the primary time in 20 years.
A well-recognized face to many from BBC comedy The High Life, in addition to EastEnders and Catastrophe, Forbes Masson performs Hahn in Farm Hall. He is joined by William Chubb (The Sandman, Quiz, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell), who performs Von Laue, Alan Cox (Say My Name, Mrs Dalloway, Housewife, 49) as Heisenberg, Daniel Boyd (On Chesil Beach, Tiger House) as von Weizsäcker, Julius D’Silva (The Crown, The Ten Commandments), as Diebner and George Jones (The Mousetrap, EastEnders) as Bagge.
Commenting on his return to Perth Theatre, Forbes Masson, who was born in Falkirk mentioned:
“I haven’t performed on a Scottish stage for 20 years, so I find it particularly poignant that it will be in the theatre where my career began. I had my very first professional theatre appearance with Joan Knight’s Rep company at Perth Theatre, so I have a particular fondness for the theatre and the city. I have a great many memories of working in the gorgeous theatre. Farm Hall is a truly great play, it’s a fantastic, entertaining, thought provoking and moving production and I am sure Perth audiences will thoroughly enjoy it.”
Inspired by true occasions, the play set within the nation home the place a few of Germany’s most interesting scientific minds had been held captive through the remaining days of World War Two, garnered excellent opinions when it opened at Jermyn Street Theatre, directed by Stephen Unwin.
Farm Hall dramatises the thrilling story of Operation Epsilon: one of the vital fascinating and unexplored episodes of World War Two. It is Summer 1945: Hitler is useless, however struggle within the Pacific rages on. The British authorities has detained six of Germany’s most gifted nuclear scientists – together with three Nobel Prize winners – at Farm Hall, a stately house in Cambridgeshire. They entertain themselves with some redacted newspapers, a damaged piano and a replica of Noël Coward’s Blithe Spirit. But their tranquil summer time is shattered by the information that the Americans have succeeded the place the Germans failed. The United States has not solely constructed an atom bomb, it has used one towards Japan. Every response to the unfolding occasions was captured due to the British clandestine surveillance of their “guests”. Unbeknownst to the scientists, each inch of Farm Hall was bugged throughout their keep.
Playwright Katherine Moar mentioned:
“I first heard about Farm Hall in Professor Kathryn Olesko’s brilliant class on nuclear scientists and dissent at Georgetown University. I read the transcripts from the British recordings all in one evening – I was hooked. These extremely intelligent, bored, funny, morally compromised men were plucked out of history at a pivotal moment and locked away for seven months. Their conversations ranged from the totally inane to the staggeringly significant. The first thing that struck me was that this could make a great play.”
The world premiere manufacturing of Farm Hall was staged on the Jermyn Street Theatre in early 2023.
Playwright Katherine Moar studied historical past on the University of Edinburgh and Darwin College, Cambridge. She is at the moment finding out for a PhD at King’s College London. Farm Hall is her first play.
Stephen Unwin is an award-winning British theatre and opera director. He has directed nearly 100 skilled productions and labored with many well-established actors and singers, in addition to growing the careers of many youthful ones. In 1993, he based English Touring Theatre, for whom he directed greater than 30 productions, lots of which transferred to London. He was Artistic Director of the brand new Rose Theatre in Kingston from 2008 to January 2014. Stephen has taught in conservatoires and universities in Britain and America. He has written 10 books on theatre and drama, 5 authentic performs and plenty of translations.
Farm Hall is in Perth Theatre from Tuesday 3 till Saturday 7 October. For tickets and data go to perththeatreandconcerthall.com, name the Perth Theatre Ticketing workforce on 01738 621031 or go to the Perth Theatre Box Office (Monday to Saturday 10:00 – 16:00).
