Wild Rose, the award-winning film a couple of Glasgow nation singer, is to be was a musical. Author Nicole Taylor is adapting her 2018 screenplay and dealing with John Tiffany, the director of Harry Potter and the Cursed Baby. The present will start on the Royal Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh in March 2025, with additional dates anticipated to be introduced.
Taylor tailored the latest Netflix hit One Day, and her different small-screen credit embrace Three Ladies, The Nest and The C Phrase. She mentioned she all the time believed within the dramatic potential of Wild Rose: “I held on to the rights, regardless that as a first-time author I had no negotiating place and I’d by no means written a phrase for theatre. I knew it might take theatrical type in some unspecified time in the future.”
Starring Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters and Sophie Okonedo, the movie tells the story of Rose-Lynn Harlan, a former prisoner and single mum whose sights are set on Nashville stardom. Working as a cleaner by day, she fronts a rustic band by evening, however her goals of fame are tempered by the truth of caring for her two younger kids.
“The dramatic query feels as enduring as ever,” mentioned Taylor. “That’s: as soon as you’re a mum, what are you allowed to need? And should you’ve received expertise, is {that a} trump card?”
Tiffany, who directed the musical As soon as and the Nationwide Theatre of Scotland’s Black Watch, mentioned Taylor’s movie was good for the stage: “It’s a stunning combination of a truthful, participating story and the attractive style of nation music. Rose-Lynn is such a improbable Glasgow character, the contradiction inside her; she frustrates you and makes you fall in love together with her in equal measure. I might see it on stage instantly.”
Taylor has been a fan of nation music because the age of 12 and is delighted by its latest rise in reputation. “As Rose-Lynn says, nation music is about getting what’s in right here out, and that feels inherently proper for a musical the place folks specific themselves in track,” she mentioned. “I wouldn’t be a author if I hadn’t found nation music as a result of I nonetheless use it to grasp what I’m feeling and to have the ability to describe it.”
The Netflix adaptation of One Day attracted audiences of 15.2 million however Taylor mentioned she is disproportionately enthusiastic about working within the theatre for the primary time. “I’m overjoyed. It’s such a duty: you’re getting folks out of their homes, making them bodily sit there. I really feel such a duty to be actually good – greater than should you’re watching telly and you may simply flip it off,” she mentioned.
The musical runs from 6 March to five April and can function songs by Dolly Parton, Carrie Underwood, Wynonna Judd, Chris Stapleton, Caitlyn Smith, the Chicks, and Patty Griffin, in addition to the movie’s unique track, Glasgow (No Place Like Residence). Will probably be choreographed by Steven Hoggett and Vicki Manderson, with a set designed by Chloe Lamford.
“Will probably be very totally different from the movie,” mentioned Tiffany. “There can be a big band on stage to be able to get the fullness of the songs and it’ll go very evenly from world to world.”
