Captain Corelli's Mandolin UK Tour and West End

Book tickets for the Captain Corelli's Mandolin UK Tour. This first major stage production of Louis De Bernieres book is now underway.

Douglas Mayo

Douglas Mayo has had a life long love affair with musical theatre. He has authored several books on publicity and marketing for amateur theatre groups. He is in the process of developing a musical based on his original story concept.

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Book tickets for the Captain Corelli's Mandolin UK Tour. This first major stage production of Louis De Bernieres book is now underway prior to West End transfer.

Olivier and Tony Award nominee Melly Still will direct the Captain Corelli's Mandolin UK Tour in 2019. The first major production of Louis de Bernieres best-selling novel will be adapted by Evening Standard Award winner and Golden Globe and BAFTA Award nominee Rona Munro.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin is an epic love story set on the Greek island of Cephalonia. It follows the lives of Dr Iannis, his beautiful, strong-willed daughter Pelagia and the Italian Captain Antonio Corelli, during the Italian and German occupation of the island in World War II. For Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernières won the 1995 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize - Overall Winner for Best Book, the 1995 Lannan Literary Award for Fiction and the 1994 Sunday Express Book of the Year. In 2001, the novel was adapted into a film starring Nicolas Cage and Penélope Cruz.

Captain Corelli's Mandolin will have set and costume designs by Mayou Trikerioti, lighting design by Malcolm Rippeth, sound design by Jon Nicholls, projection design by Dom Baker for OD Vision and music composed by Harry Blake.