National Theatre's LONDON TIDE World Premiere Recording Now Available
The play was first performed earlier this year at the Lyttelton Theatre in London.
By: Josh Sharpe Oct. 17, 2024
Broadway Records has digitally released the world premiere recording of The National Theatre production of London Tide directed by Ian Rickson and featuring original songs by PJ Harvey and Ben Power.
First performed earlier this year at the Lyttelton Theatre in London, Power adapted the Charles Dickens Victorian-era novel Our Mutual Friend and collaborated with PJ Harvey on 13 songs and along with Music Director Ian Ross, crafted distinctive music and cast vocal arrangements that resulted in a fiercely original and starkly modern play with music. The cast includes Brandon Grace as Charley Hexam, Scott Karim as Bradley Headstone, Bella Maclean as Bella Wilfer, Tom Mothersdale as John Rokesmith, Ami Tredrea as Lizzie Hexam, and Peter Wight as Noddy Boffin. From 20 September, audiences can listen to the single “Holloway” performed by Bella Maclean on all music streaming platforms. The album will be released digitally on October 17 which will coincide with the streaming debut of the production on National Theatre at Home, The National Theatre’s streaming platform.
A romantic and propulsive thriller, London Tide is a hymn to the city and the river that runs through it. A storm rages and, in the darkest part of the night, a body is pulled from the swirling river. Across the city, two young women confront an uncertain future.
ABOUT PJ Harvey
PJ Harvey’s career has always commanded attention. A multi-instrumentalist, she is primarily a vocalist, guitarist and pianist.
Her catalogue features ten studio albums, her most recent being 2023’s Grammy-nominated I Inside the Old Year Dying. Musically, she has collaborated with the likes of Thom Yorke, Nick Cave, Tricky, Sparklehorse, Josh Homme, John Parish, Pascal Comelade, Gordon Gano, Ramy Essam and Mark Lanegan.
Accolades include an MBE for services to music and an Honorary Degree in Music at Goldsmiths in London. She is the only artist to have been awarded the prestigious Mercury Music Prize twice, in 2001 for Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea, and 2011 for Let England Shake, alongside eight Brit Award nominations, eight Grammy Award nominations and two further Mercury Prize nominations. She has authored two books of poetry, The Hollow of the Hand and Orlam.
In theatre, she scored for director Ivo van Hove’s 2018 adaptation of All About Eve, and has worked on numerous productions by acclaimed director Ian Rickson, including London Tide. For television, she composed the score for the arresting drama, The Virtues, and co-composed with Tim Phillips for Bad Sisters 1 & 2. Her music was used throughout series 2 of Peaky Blinders.
In 2018 PJ Harvey recorded a version of ‘An Acre of Land’ for Clio Barnard’s film Dark River. Her song ‘Prayer at the Gate’ from I Inside the Old Year Dying plays across the closing credits of the video game, Alan Wake 2.
ABOUT Ben Power
Ben Power is a Tony Award winning and BAFTA and Olivier Award nominated writer for theatre and film. He is an Associate of The National Theatre.
His adaptation of The Lehman Trilogy transferred from The National Theatre to the West End and opened on Broadway in 2021. It was nominated for Olivier, Evening Standard and Drama League awards for Best Play, and in 2022 won the Tony Award for Best New Play.
From 2014-2019, he was Deputy Artistic Director of The National Theatre and, prior to that, an Associate of the theatre for four years. He commissioned and produced over seventy world premieres and in 2013 was responsible for the temporary theatre space, The Shed. His adaptations for the National include DH Lawrence’s Husbands & Sons, Euripides’ Medea, and Ibsen’s Emperor & Galilean.
Prior to joining the National, Ben was the first Associate Director of Headlong. Adaptations for the company include Six Characters in Search of an Author, Faustus (both with Rupert Goold) and Paradise Lost. Other work for the theatre includes the dramaturgy on Complicite’s A Disappearing Number, which won the Olivier, Evening Standard and Critics’ Circle Awards for Best Play.
Screenplays include five films in the BBC Shakespeare series The Hollow Crown, which won RTS and Broadcasting Press Guild awards and were nominated for BAFTAs for Best Single Drama and Best Mini-Series. He is currently writing feature screenplays for Netflix and MGM and a play for The National Theatre.
Recently he has written a feature for Netflix, MUNICH: THE EDGE OF WAR, and has an original series in development with Working Title, Raw and Netflix.
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