STEPHEN WARD Loads In To The Aldwych Theatre

The eagerly awaited new musical from internationally renown composer Andrew Lloyd Webber and collaborators Don Black and Christopher Hampton, STEPHEN WARD, directed by Richard Eyre, is set to premiere next month and the technical crew are already hard at work loading in the production to the home of its West End debut.

Crew were spotted at the Aldwych Theatre in London's West End loading in sound equipment and much more this week, with a preliminary photo peek at the sights inside the theater making its way onto social media, as well.

The official synopsis for STEPHEN WARD is as follows: "STEPHEN WARD deals with the victim of the Profumo Affair - not, as is widely supposed, John Profumo himself, the disgraced Minister for War, nor even the fatally wounded Conservative government of Harold Macmillan, but the society osteopath whose private libertarian experiments blew up in his own and everyone else's face. In a trial as emblematic to the twentieth century as Oscar Wilde's was to the nineteenth - from which he was the only protagonist to emerge with some dignity and honour. Ward became the targeted scapegoat of a furiously self-righteous Establishment. By no means a hero, he was a reluctant martyr, thanks to an unholy alliance between Press and police of a kind we can all too readily recognise today; inadvertently, he was the hinge between two worlds and the harbinger of a revolution in manners, music and morals when the ordered, stuffy, respectful universe of the fifties gave way to the classless, truculent, unstoppable sixties."

STEPHEN WARD was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Christopher Hampton and Don Black, beginning previews in the West End on December 3. For more information, visit the official STEPHEN WARD Facebook page here.

Also, see previous coverage of Andrew Lloyd Webber attending rehearsals for STEPHEN WARD late last month, available here.

View a larger version of the load-in of STEPHEN WARD into the Aldwych Theatre below.

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