10/31/2011

Backbeat Duke of York's Theatre London

By Arthur Brown


Backbeat can be a 1994 British-German drama film directed by Iain Softley. It chronicles the early days of The Beatles in Hamburg, Germany. The film focuses mainly on the relationship between Stuart Sutcliffe (played by Stephen Dorff) and John Lennon (played by Ian Hart), and also with Sutcliffe's German girlfriend Astrid Kirchherr (played by Sheryl Lee).

It has subsequently been made into a stage production, debuting at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre in 2010. It has been announced that Backbeat will make its London West End dbut on 10th October 2011 (previews begin 24 September) at the Duke of York's theatre.

Backbeat - the adaptation of the 1994 film by Iain Softley on the birth of the Beatles - will be rock 'n' rolling its strategy to London's Duke of York Theatre for its West Finish premiere from October.

Backbeat may be the story of how The Beatles 'became' The Beatles - when John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Pete Best and Stuart Sutcliffe embarked on their journey from the well-known docks of Liverpool to search for good results inside the seedy red light district of Hamburg, working eight days a week, in the clubs of the tawdry Reeperbahn, performing rock 'n' roll covers night soon after night.

The compelling triangular relationship among the band's original bassist Stuart Sutcliffe, the striking German photographer Astrid Kirchherr whom he fell in enjoy with, and his best buddy John Lennon, became an intrinsic component of the Beatles' story - and put them on an unstoppable trajectory onto the world stage.

Stuart's struggle among his very best buddy and the band, Astrid and his art, makes Stuart the troubled focus of Backbeat. His death, aged only 22, within the exact same year that the Beatles appointed Brian Epstein as manager, signed to Parlophone Records by Sir George Martin, and released their first single 'Love Me Do', adds towards the poignancy of this outstanding and vivid portrait of the early 1960's.

Backbeat functions the all-time rock 'n' roll classics that the Beatles cut their teeth with - 'Twist and Shout', 'Rock 'N' Roll Music', 'Long Tall Sally', 'Please Mr Postman' and 'Money' - live on stage as performed by 'the Beatles'. Co-written by Iain Softley and Stephen Jeffreys, with musical direction by Paul Stacey, and directed by the award-winning David Leveaux.




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