Photo Flash: First Look at THE NIGHTINGALES

Get a first look below at the brand new play and UK tour of The Nightingales starring Ruth Jones in her anticipated return to the stage. Written by William Gaminara and directed by RSC Associate Artist Christopher Luscombe, the world premiere production has its opening night for press at Theatre Royal Bath on Wednesday 7 November and will then tour to Cambridge, Cardiff, Chichester and Malvern until December, prior to a West End transfer, with venue and dates to be announced. The cast is competed by Steven Pacey, Stefan Adegbola, Sarah Earnshaw, Philip McGinley and Mary Stockley.

The Nightingales is a funny, moving and thought-provoking play which follows the lives of a small community acapella group in their weekly singing practice, and the impact of new arrival, Maggie.

Under the watchful eye of Steven, their choirmaster, Connie, Ben, Diane and Bruno gather every week in the village hall to practise their accomplished acapella singing. They are a motley crew, but whatever their differences, whatever the problems they may have at home, all are happily bound together in their shared love of music. Until one day Maggie knocks on the door. . . Soon she is urging them to enter Talentfest, a potentially life-changing route to Britain's Got Talent. In the weeks that follow, loyalties will be tested, tempers will fray and lives will indeed be changed - but not in the way that any of them had quite anticipated.

Photo Credit: Geraint Lewis