A flailing genius and a rising king confront their intimately held beliefs before a court full of the 18th century’s greatest intellectuals.
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Liefhebbers van drama I Liefhebbers van geschiedenis I Fans of music
Why Watch The Score
Why Watch The Score
Like a great fugue, Trevor Nunn’s grand non-musical exploration of one of the greatest composers builds its power through precise counterpoint. Brian Cox, fresh from his seismic success in TV’s Succession, brings that same domineering presence to Bach alongside his real-life spouse, Nicole Ansari-Cox. Nunn’s ‘magnetic’ (Daily Telegraph) portrait of power and prowess serves as a painful reminder of how civilization's highest achievements coexist with its darkest impulses. In an era of diminishing theatrical ambition, Oliver Cotton’s intimate play delivers the rare pleasure of watching two maestros wage a war of intellect in period costume.
Het verhaal
It is spring in 1747. Unbeknownst to the soft breeze, a sinister trap is being laid inside Frederick the Great's Potsdam palace, where Johann Sebastian Bach and Maria Barbara Bach’s fifth-born son is the court composer. The challenge is simple enough - an ostensibly difficult theme must be adapted into a fugue. Here is Bach, a divinely inspired and morally uncompromising musical genius, forced to pay homage to a monarch whose enlightened rule has left Silesia's fields littered with corpses. What begins as Frederick's attempt to humiliate an aging Lutheran composer evolves into something far more dangerous: a confrontation between a man of God and a recklessly godless autocrat.
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Toon details
Genre: toneelstuk
Start date: Feb 20, 2025
Closing date: April 26, 2025
Theater name: Theatre Royal Haymarket
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Theater facilities: Toilets, bar, air conditioning
Theater accessibility: Wheelchair accessible, Assistive Listening System, adapted toilets
Dresscode: smart casual
Cast & Crew
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Director: Trevor Nunn
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Writer: Oliver Cotton
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Leading roles: Brian Cox as Johann Sebastian Bach and Nicole Ansari-Cox as Anna Bach.
Extra informatie
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Kinderen (onder 16) moeten worden begeleid door een volwassene en een geldig kaartje bij zich hebben. Kinderen jonger dan 5 jaar worden niet toegelaten in het theater.
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