April 2019
Based on a book by Michael Morpurgo
Adapted by Daniel Buckroyd
Puppet design & direction - Maia Kirkman-Richards
Set & Costume Design - Lizzy Leech
Sound Design & Composition - Anna Cock
Theatre Director
"What a radiant production Jessica Daniels has made" The Guardian
"A tremendous and deeply moving production from Jessica Daniels" The Stage
Based on the book by Michael Morpurgo
Adapted by Vicki Berwick
The Barn Theatre, 2022
THE MOZART QUESTION
A young reporter being sent to interview a great violinist Paolo Levi. There’s just one thing she is told not to do and that is to ask the Mozart question. However, as the interview begins, Paolo takes the opportunity to tell her his life story, including the answer to mystery.
He takes us back to his life as a little boy growing up in Venice and recounts how he discovered a violin in his own home. A violin with a haunting traumatic past set against the background of the Holocaust. Michael Morpurgo’s moving tale of love, secrets and survival is bound together by the power of music in the hardest of times
★★★★
The Financial Times
★★★★
The Times
★★★★★
The Telegraph
★★★★
The Observer
CAST
Ian Harris
Phyllis Ho
Elzbieta Kalicka
Lara Lewis
Matthew Romain
Matt Ray Brown
Mikey Tsoukkas
Eleanor Turiansky
Emma Whittaker
COMPOSER AND MUSIC SUPERVISOR
Rudy Percival
SET AND COSTUME DESIGN
Ceci Calf
SOUND DESIGN
Ben Hudson
MOVEMENT DIRECTION
Mark Conway
LIGHTING DESIGN
Sam Rowcliffe-Tanner