The Lightning Child

The Lightning Child
The Lightning Child
Written by	Ché Walker (with music by Arthur Darvill)
Characters	Dionysus, Pentheus, Agave
Date premiered	September 14, 2013
Place premiered	Shakespeare's Globe
Original language	English
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The Lightning Child is a 2013 play by Ché Walker, freely adapting The Bacchae by Euripides.^[1] Its premiere production at Shakespeare's Globe in London ran from 14 September to 12 October 2013 - the same theatre has previously put on Walker's The Frontline.

The play includes songs by Arthur Darvill, who has also collaborated with Walker on The Frontline and the 2009 musical Been So Long. Darvill had to recommence work on the score from scratch in October 2012 after his laptop was stolen.^[2]

^ "The Lightning Child by Ché Walker and Arthur Darvill, a musical remix of Euipides' the Baccahae / Shakespeare's Globe". Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.
^ "Dr Who star Arthur Darvill has laptop stolen by burglars". 25 October 2012.

[1] "The Lightning Child by Ché Walker and Arthur Darvill, a musical remix of Euipides' the Baccahae / Shakespeare's Globe". Archived from the original on 27 April 2015. Retrieved 19 April 2015.

[2] "Dr Who star Arthur Darvill has laptop stolen by burglars". 25 October 2012.

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