Theatre Tickets - Gone With The Wind

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Show Type

Musical

Show Overview

For the first time ever, Margaret Mitchell's best selling novel, Gone With the Wind has been adapted for London theatre.

The Pullitzer Prize winning tale opens at the New London Theatre in April, and tickets are already selling fast for the long awaited London show.

Gone with the Wind is about the life and loves of Scarlett O'Hara during and after the American Civil. She is mistress of Tara, a Georgian plantation. Scarlett finds out Ashley Wilkes is planning to marry his cousin Melanie Hamilton and this makes Scarlett very jealous as she is secretly in love with him. Though she flirts at a barbecue he announces to her he still plans on marrying Melanie. Spurned, Scarlett agrees to marry Charles Hamilton who has always been intended for Melanie's sister Honey Wilkes. Rhett Butler has been watching Scarlett and thinks she has fire.

Both couples marry within weeks but just a couple of months later Charles dies at battle and Scarlett is left as a widow with years of mourning ahead. She doesn't feel much for the loss of her husband but is unhappy with the boredom. She gives birth to Charles' son Wade Hampton Hamilton. Scarlett's mother sends her away to Atlanta to be with Melanie and her Aunt Pittypat.

In Atlanta Scarlett meets Rhett Butler for the first time. At a charity dance, he asks her to dance and she agrees. This causes social outrage for a widow in mourning. They become attached and he constantly calls on Aunt Pittypat in order to see Scarlett. They have a fiery relationship.

Ashley comes home and Scarlett realises she is more in love with him than ever. He asks Scarlett to look after his family as he knows the South is about to 'fall', she promises she will. On the day he is due to leave again, she reveals she still loves him and they embrace.

As the war turns and the Yankees begin bombarding Atlanta, the City evacuates. Melanie is about to give birth however and with no doctors, Scarlett stays too and helps her through the labour. Then she gets hold of Rhett and he manages to get a broken down carriage from the Army to escort the two women, their two children and Prissy the maid back to Tara. On the road back, Rhett leaves them and goes back to fight for the South. Before he leaves however, he passionately kisses Scarlett.

When they arrive back at Tara, the house is in ruins. Most of the slaves have left, her mother is dead, her father demented and her sisters sick with Typhoid. She has to take control of the plantation. Scarlett finally begins to feel a bond for Melanie.

Scarlett marries successful store owner Frank Kennedy in order to get money from him to pay the high taxes on Tara. She unhappily becomes pregnant with Frank's child and gives birth to baby Ella.

Back in Atlanta Scarlett persuades Ashley to work for her running her saw mill. This breaks his spirit but she can keep him near. As a woman in business she upsets many woman with her 'recklessness'. She travels to and from the mill alone every day and one is attacked by a poor white man and his black companion. When Frank and Ashely hear of the incident, they with some other men go to avenge the attack. Ashley is injured and Frank killed. Rhett proposes to Scarlett straight after Frank's funeral.

Scarlett enjoys married life with Rhett and the two have a baby girl nicknamed Bonnie Blue Butler. They have money and Scarlett spends this lavishly. Rhett continues to be jealous of Scarlett's feelings for Ashley and when Ashley's sister India catches Ashley and Scarlett hugging, innocently, she spreads rumours about them. Melanie stands by Scarlett however, disbelieving the rumours. At a party, Scarlett finds Rhett in a drunken rage and he carries her to bed where they make love. She again falls pregnant. After a heated disagreement about the baby, Scarlett falls down the stairs and has a miscarriage.

Rhett tricks Scarlett into selling the sawmill to Ashley and Bonnie dies whilst trying to jump her horse. Scarlett blames Rhett and he blames himself. They refuse to see each other. Melanie falls ill and on her deathbed asks Scarlett to look out for Ashley and be good to Rhett because he loves her. Scarlett realises she never really loved Ashley, just the idea of being married to her 'knight'.

Just as Scarlett realises she loves and wants Rhett, he is drained of love for her and decides to leave. She is desperate and ask 'what shall I do', his retort, the most famous in all of movie land, 'frankly my dear, I don't give a damn.' Scarlett returns to Tara, hoping to build a new future.

For further details, see our Gone With the Wind Review

Show Age Suitability

Gone With the Wind is suitable for older children and adults.

Theatre Information

Gone with the Wind is currently playing at the New London Theatre, Drury Lane, London, WC2B 5PW

Nearest Underground Station is Holborn - Serving Central and Piccadilly lines

Bus links:   Numbers 1, 4, 6, 9, 11, 13, 15, 23, 26, 59, 68, 76, 77A, 91, 139, 168, 171, 172, 176, 188, 243, 341, 521 and X68

Performance Information*

Evenings:
Monday - Saturday: 7.30pm
NOTE: Mondays starting at 7.00PM until 22nd April

Matinees:
Wednesday and Saturday: 2.30pm

* SUBJECT TO CHANGE - ALWAYS CHECK PERFORMANCE START TIME ON YOUR CONFIRMATION

Creative Team

Author/playwright: Margaret Mitchell
Director: Trevor Nunn
Music by: Margaret Martin

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