King’s Head Theatre
115 Upper St, London N1 1QN
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Firebird
- 90mins (no interval)
- King’s Head Theatre
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Richard Hough‘s FIREBIRD is playing at the King’s Head Theatre for a limited run in early 2025.
Drawing on a true-life Cold War story, FIREBIRD follows a handsome, soulful young soldier who embarks on a clandestine affair with a charismatic fighter pilot on an Air Force Base in Soviet-occupied Estonia at the height of 1970s Communist rule. The story comes to the stage for the first time after an acclaimed film by Peeter Rebane and Tom Prior (2021) which premiered at BFI Flare: London’s LGBTQI+ Film Festival.
The cast are Robert Eades (Johnny Weissmuller in the film ‘Young Woman & the Sea’, Mo Dix in ‘Bad Education’), Nigel Hastings (The Forsyte Saga Parts 1 & 2, Park Theatre, Jeff in the hit two-hander And Then Come the Night Jars, Theatre503, tours, and film adaptation), Sorcha Kennedy (Rainer – Offie-nominated Lead Performance in a Play, Arcola Theatre, and Scarlet Sunday, at Omnibus Theatre) and Theo Walker (Coming Clean, Turbine Theatre).
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Drawing on a true-life Cold War story, FIREBIRD follows a handsome young soldier who embarks on a clandestine affair with a charismatic fighter pilot in 1970’s Soviet-occupied Estonia. On stage for the first time following the acclaimed film and memoir.
Tickets available for performances from 9 Jan – 9 Feb 2025
90mins, no interval.
Richard Hough (Writer), Owen Lewis (Director)
Age Guidance: 16+
'The gay military epic that enraged Putin's Russia'
'A tragic, intimate and unforgettable love story'
'A Cold War-era Brokeback Mountain - with a dash of Top Gun'
'This sweeping yet intimate story, so rich and romantic, needs now more than ever to be widely known.'