Gone With The Wind world premiere date set
Story by Jack Foley
GONE With The Wind, Trevor Nunn’s musical adaptation of Margaret Mitchell’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, is to receive its world premiere at the New London Theatre on April 22, 2008, (previews from April 4) and is initially booking until September 27, 2008.
Set in 1860’s Atlanta, Georgia, Gone with the Wind is the story of the seventeen-year-old Scarlett O’Hara, the eldest of three daughters living a life of luxury on their father’s plantation. But then President Lincoln demands the end of slavery in the South and the Civil War begins.
Scarlett’s incredible journey through both the war and the peace is mirrored in her turbulent relationship with Rhett Butler, whose actions always defy prediction. Their story spans ten years and mingles romantic ecstasy with tragic grief, as the life these people once knew disappears – gone with the wind.
Gone With The Wind was first published in 1936 and went on to become one of the best selling novels of the 20th century. It won its author Margaret Mitchell the Pulitzer Prize. Three year’s later in 1939, the film adaptation starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, made box office history as the highest grossing film of all time and is still regarded as one of the greatest American classics.
Prior to the opening of Gone With The Wind, Nunn’s sell-out Royal Shakespeare Company productions of King Lear and The Seagull, both starring Sir Ian McKellen, will run in rep at the theatre for a limited season from November 15, 2007 until January 12, 2008.
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