Southwark Playhouse Wasted

  • Run time: 160 min
  • Premiere: 2020. April 23.

Through the lens of a rock documentary, Wasted gives an access-all-areas account of the struggles, heartbreaks and triumphs of the three Brontë sisters Charlotte, Emily, Anne, and their brother Branwell. Brought up in a remote, poverty-stricken town in Yorkshire, without money or opportunity, they fought ill-health, unrequited love and family feuds to write some of the most celebrated literature including Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights. Never afraid to rebel against expectations, the lives behind the pages expose a struggling, squabbling, ferociously driven, drug-fuelled crash and burn trajectory from obscurity to celebrity and ultimately to their untimely deaths. Coupled with a rock score from Christopher Ash (Showstoppers – Oliver Award winner for Best Entertainment), book and lyrics by Carl Miller (Emil and the Detectives, National Theatre), directed by Adam Lenson (Superhero – Off-West End Award for New Musical), the Brontës ask – was it all wasted?

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Art

Libby Todd

Set Designer

Crew

Christina Fulcher

Choreographer

Natasha Harrison

Choreographer

Directing

Adam Lenson

Director

Grace Taylor

Assistant Director

Lighting

Sam Waddington

Lighting Design

Matt Daw

Lighting Design

Sound

Mike Thacker

Sound Designer

Writing

Art

Libby Todd

Set Designer

Crew

Christina Fulcher

Choreographer

Natasha Harrison

Choreographer

Directing

Adam Lenson

Director

Grace Taylor

Assistant Director

Lighting

Sam Waddington

Lighting Design

Matt Daw

Lighting Design

Sound

Mike Thacker

Sound Designer

Writing