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The behind-the-scene story from page to stage with exclusive video of rehearsal, performance and interviews with the cast, creative and technical teams.

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Coram Boy
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Introduction
About the Play
Rehearsal Diaries
Creative
Adaptation

How do you transform a novel into a play?

Directing

Melly Still made some bold choices in deciding to display raw emotion

Music

Music became one of the stars of this production

Performance
Performing History

Horrific as well as sublime moments from the lives of children and young people

Rehearsals

Actors create a wood, the sound of dying children and the fury of the mothers of lost babies

Research

Among other things, poverty, slavery and child abuse were researched for this production

Workshop

Coram Boy was ‘road tested’ in six weeks of workshops at the National Theatre Studio

Performance

Aaron, Thomas and Meshak swim for their lives

Technical
Special Effects

Hanging, drowning, birth and death

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