Award winning play And Then Come The Nightjars is coming to the big screen in September, and here’s the trailer
And Then Come The Nightjars is a play by British writer Bea Roberts that premiered in 2015 and won multiple awards. It has now been adapted into a film with the same cast and creative team, and the synopsis reads as follows:
Adapted for the screen from Bea Roberts’ multi-award-winning stage play, And Then Come the Nightjars tells the story of an unlikely friendship between a Devon farmer and the vet who is assigned to cull his precious herd. A heart-warming story of friendship and survival set against the backdrop of the 2001 Foot and Mouth outbreak.
Reprising their original stage roles are Nigel Hastings and David Fielder, with Paul Robinson, who directed the original production, making his feature directorial debut from Roberts’ screenplay.
And Then Come The Nightjars will be released in UK cinemas on the 1st September.
Watch the trailer below…
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