Writer 'over the moon' at Olivier award win
At a glanceWritten by Chris Bush with music by Richard Hawley, the show is set on Sheffield's Park Hill estateShe said a TV adaptation of the stage show is in developmentThe author of Sheffield-based Standing at the Sky's Edge has said she is "over the moon" after it was named best new musical atChris Bush wrote the book for the show which first opened at at Sheffield's Crucible in 2019 and transferred to the National Theatre in February.
The show at London's National Theatre closed last week and the writer said she was delighted it had charmed audiences in the capital."It works in Sheffield because knock down the [theatre] walls and it [Park Hill] is there on your doorstep, but what things like this award show is that it has a proper universal story at the heart of it."She said she felt positive the show would return to the stage and there were other projects under way.
Mr Hawley also won an Olivier, alongside musical director Tom Deering, for best original score or orchestration for the show.Ms Bush said she hoped the success of the musical would show the importance of telling stories about "ordinary people" that matter. "Those characters are people you might describe as sort of normal people or people who you wouldn't necessarily find in the history books.
"Lives that might seem small at first glance, but actually have this sort of majesty and poetry and tragedy to them and they are all stories worth telling."
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