The National Theatre has announced a musical adaptation of the 2014 film 'Pride', based on the historical alliance between LGBTQ+ activists and striking coal miners in the 1980s. The project will be led by the film's original director, Matthew Warchus, and writer Stephen Beresford, featuring music composed by Christopher Nightingale and others. National Theatre's director praised the initiative as a new chapter of creativity, aiming to celebrate the unity between different communities as embodied in the film. The adaptation aims to preserve this vital history, which many believe risks being overlooked.
The film was praised for bringing to the screen the real-life story of how two very different communities united at a difficult time and found a way to support each other.
I am so excited about everything to come, and the wealth of projects and artists announced today. The National Theatre is a beacon of creativity, humanity and possibilities.
Everybody within the cast and crew responded to that feeling at the read-through very passionately. They felt a huge ownership over that, whether they were men, women, gay or straight.
I was thrilled that this has happened because there was a great danger that the story would be lost to history forever.
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