Overview
- The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is playing at London’s Theatre Royal Haymarket through 18 April.
- Rachel Joyce adapts her 2012 novel, with a folk-driven score by Passenger and direction by Katy Rudd, alongside Samuel Wyer’s design and Tom Jackson Greaves’s choreography.
- Mark Addy stars as Harold with Jenna Russell as Maureen, portraying a retiree’s spontaneous walk across England to visit a dying friend.
- The Independent praises the show’s buoyant songwriting and hopeful tone, while the Evening Standard finds it slight and labels it a “meh-sical,” and The Times offers a three-star review.
- Noah Mullins appears as the Balladeer, a recurring figure tied to Harold’s memories, as the production uses inventive ensemble imagery, simple props and a puppet dog to evoke the journey.