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Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges star in an underpowered adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story. Theatre review by Mert Dilek

The world premiere of Ashley Robinson's play with music, Brokeback Mountain, has now opened @sohoplace. Directed by Jonathan Butterell with songs by Dan Gillespie Sells, the show stars Mike Faist as Jack and Lucas Hedges as Ennis, both making their West End stage debuts. 

Mike Faist and Lucas Hedges star in a well-meaning play adaptation that fails to find a satisfying theatrical form.

Whilst I would have liked the story to be expanded and give us more of Jack’s story, this production worked on every level for me.

Jonathan Butterell directs Ashley Robinson's adaptation of the intense gay love story.

Anti-racists in Scotland are gearing up to push back fascists and racists from protesting outside a refugee hotel in Erskine on Sunday

Brokeback Mountain West End - Brokeback Mountain Wyoming 1963: a wild landscape where people live in extreme rural poverty in tight, insular and conservative communities. When Ennis and Jack take jobs on the isolated Brokeback Mountain, all their certainties of life change forever as they flounder in unexpected emotional waters of increasing depth. Dan Gillespie-Sells beautiful Country and Western songs weave heartbreakingly through this intense tale of an unresistible and hidden love spanning t...

GAY TIMES speaks with the creative team behind Brokeback Mountain, the West End's brand new play based on the 2005 film of the name.

Jonathan Butterell directs Ashley Robinson's adaptation of the intense gay love story.

The star helped reinvent West Side Story with Spielberg. Can he repeat the trick with the stage version of Annie Proulx's beloved story?