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The Unlikely Pilgrimage by Harold Fry

When Rachel Joyce’s best-selling book about a retiree’s road trip was made into a film in 2023, it contained a number of great numbers by Sam Lee. Earlier this year, his colleague Folke Basinger (aka Michael David Rosenberg) provided the music and lyrics for the Chichester Festival stage production, which will move to the West End in January. Passenger’s song album, One for the Road — with some tracks not featured in the musical and an appearance by Jack Wolfe, who played the Balladeer in the show — is available to stream now.

Mad Hatter’s Tea Party

ZooNation presents A Christmas Carol Hip-Hop Tour this winter, with Ebony Scrooge at Sadler’s Wells. A decade later, Kate Prince turned the story of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland on its head with this Royal Ballet commission. Available from Digital Theater.

calm

Tanika Gupta brings Ibsen’s late 19th-century play Christiania (Oslo) to 1948 London and turns Hedda into a former Hollywood star, in a rewriting inspired by the life of Oscar-nominated actor Merle Oberon. Hettie MacDonald directs Pearl Chanda in its world premiere at the Orange Tree in Richmond. Available from November 25th to 28th.

Aurélie DuPont: Moments of Grace

French director Cédric Klapisch is known for his often romantic comedies – but he’s also passionate about dancing. The 2022 drama En Corps starred ballerina Marion Barbot, whose teacher was Aurelie Dupont, The star He was profiled (with stunning performance clips) in the 2010 documentary Klapisch, Now Director of Dance at the Paris Opera.

The estate

A sharp turn from Adeel Akhtar leads Shaan Sahota’s 2025 political drama, which comes to the National Theater at Home on November 12. That night, to celebrate Captioning Awareness Week and 25 years of deaf-led charity Stagetext, there is an online subtitled event with a live chat for viewers. Interpreted, audio-described and non-BSL versions of the play are available.

Artistic clicks

Pentabus’s national young writers’ collective makes every minute count with this series of digital mini-dramas, told in 90-second clips on TikTok. The playwrights hail from all over the UK and are the first in the series, written by Eilidh Nurse, starring Outlander and Gary Lewis who plays Billy Elliot. In cooperation with rural media.

between the lines

A young adult novel co-written by Jodi Picoult and her teenage daughter was the source for this high school musical, which blurs the turmoil of adolescence with a fantasy adventure inspired by its heroine’s favorite novel. It was released in New York in 2022, and on BroadwayHD.

Absenteeism

“La Capitana” is the nickname earned by flamenco dancer Carmen Amaya, who created a sensation in the late 1930s. Choreographer and dancer Aina Alegre pays tribute to this performance, filmed at the Lyon Dance Biennale earlier this year (streaming on Arte.tv).