The 1993 best-selling novel Birdsong by writer Sebastian Faulkes has been adapted for the stage, and will run at the Comedy Theatre in the West End from September this year. Theatre tickets for Birdsong are available to buy now.

Trevor Nunn is set to direct this war time epic with Becky Barber, the recent recipient of Stage One Start Up Funds £25,000 award for new producers, co-producing the show as part of her West End debut. Rachel Wagstaff has adapted the play from the original novel. Her BBC Radio 4 adaptation of The Girl at the Lion D’or is part of the Birdsong trilogy, which also includes Charlotte Gray.

Birdsong centres on the life of Stephen Wraysford, beginning during his time in pre-war France staying in the house of a successful factory owner. Here he falls passionately in love with the factory owner’s wife Isabelle, and they embark on an illicit affair that will change their lives forever.

When Wraysford returns to France years later, he is a soldier in the First World War. His memories of the love he found here are the only thing to keep him going through the treachery of war fare, and the infamously gruesome Battle of the Somme.

Director Trevor Nunn is a legendary name in the West End, as the former artistic director of the RSC and the National Theatre in London. Recent productions include A Little Night Music and Inherit The Wind.

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