Listen "The Lovely Bones"
Episode Synopsis
The Lovely Bones cast members Isabella (Susie), Ava (Lindsey) and Andrew (Mr Harvey) interviewed by Cait (Grandma Lynn). Alice Sebold’s novel The Lovely Bones has been a bestseller throughout the world and the 2009 film, directed by Peter Jackson starring Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz and Susan Sarandon won a number of international awards.Now a major new production by the Putney Theatre Company, with a wonderful ensemble cast and crew led by director Frances Bodiam.Susie Salmon is 14 years old. She is dead. Murdered by a neighbour. When she arrives in her Heaven she can have anything she desires except to be alive again. But she is determined to help her family through their grief and identify her killer. She watches helplessly as her family falls apart and her brother and sister grow up without her, but can she exact revenge for her death from her place in heaven?Putney Theatre Company presents The Lovely Bones, 23–27 April 2024, at Putney Arts Theatre. Box Office: putneyartstheatre.org.uk.Cast and CrewSusie Salmon - Isabella Walsh-WhitfieldMr. Harvey - Andrew CurryFranny - Penny Weatherall Abigail Salmon - Cat RocheJack Salmon - Tim IredaleLindsey Salmon - Ava MooreBuckley Salmon - Elisa Benham Grandma Lynn - Cait Hart DykeRuth Connors - Alice JadeRay Singh - Callum LockerRuana Singh - Shilpa Varma Len Fennerman - Jason RosenthalSamuel Heckler - Harry Jefferies Principal Caden - Sarah KitchenMrs Flanagan - also Sarah KitchenDirector – Frances BodiamAssistant Director – Theo LeonardProduction Manager – Sarah JillingsStage Manager – Helen WoodsSet Design – Simon CrumpOriginal Music and soundtrack – Nick WellsChoreography - Penny Weatherall Visual assets courtesy of Adobestock and Shutterstock. With excerpts of The Soundtrack, The Lovely Bones (Putney Theatre Production) by Nick Wells/jakejackson451.The Putney Theatre Company at The South West End! See us online – www.putneyartstheatre.org.uk/whatson Host: Cait Hart-Dyke.Producer, podcast editor and sound design: Nick Wells. Music is 'At the Tropicana' by Chalalatas, license courtesy of Epidemic Sounds.Recorded at the Putney Arts Theatre.
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