We will be talking live on Facebook to Becca Marriott about The King’s Head Theatre’s transfer of Puccini’s La bohème to the West End. The show is running at Trafalgar Studios.
La bohème is directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher, Artistic Director of King’s Head Theatre, who has just directed a new production of Tosca there and used to co-run OperaUpClose. Adam and Becca Marriott’s reinterpretation of the Puccini opera is set in present-day East London and lays bare the damaging effects of co-dependent relationships against a backdrop of spiralling rents and social media. This interpretation only features Mimi, Rodolfo (now called Ralph), Marcello (now Mark) and Musetta. These roles will be played by Becca Marriott as Mimi, Matthew Kimble and Roger Paterson sharing the role of Ralph, Matthew Palmer and Thomas Isherwood sharing the role of Mark, Honey Rouhani as Musetta, and Lizzie Holmes playing both Mimi and Musetta.
You can watch our interview with Becca and a performance of a song from the show on Friday 15 December at 2pm.
