Harry Potter actor set to star in Beowulf coming to Midlands and Shropshire

The brand new musical re-telling of the famous saga featuring professional singers and soloists and local children’s choirs and designed for the whole family to enjoy.

The film and TV star, best known as Mr Weasley in the Harry Potter movies and for the TV series Father Brown and The Fast Show, will join singers, soloists and a children’s choir live on stage for the new adaptation.

The show features original music by Toby Young and a script by Danny Coleman-Cooke, produced by Armonico Consort.

The project also involves Armonico Consort’s education programme AC Academy, which is generously supported by Phillips 66 and JET: each concert features a 150-strong children’s choir formed from local schools as part of its choir creation scheme and after-school choirs.

Christopher Monks, Artistic Director of Armonico Consort, says: “When I first heard the music Toby Young has been writing for Beowulf I was delighted; it captures all the excitement and drama of this epic story, and the tender moments too.

"This is such a unique and special project for Armonico Consort, giving our children’s choirs the opportunity to perform this fabulous new piece together with our own professional singers and star soloists and with such a wonderful celebrity narrator as Mark Williams as Beowulf.”

Beowulf takes place at Telford Oakengates Theatre on October 10, Solihull's Bushell Hall on October 11, Worcester Cathedral on October 12 and Coventry's The Albany Theatre on October 13.

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