Graham Greene’s brilliant story – which was made into a landmark film and published as a novella – now comes to the stage in a new musical with book & lyrics by Don Black and Christopher Hampton, music by George Fenton, and direction by Trevor Nunn.
Post-war Vienna is the setting as Holly Martins arrives at the invitation of his friend and hero, Harry Lime, only to discover that Harry has been killed in a car accident. But nothing that he is told about what happened makes any sense. The tension mounts as Holly enters the world of black marketeers and military bureaucracy, culminating in a chase through the Viennese sewers, as Holly tries to discover what happened to Harry…and who is the third man?
Originally developed by Vereinigte Bühnen Wien GmbH (VBW) in Vienna, Franz Patay, CEO, and Christian Struppeck, Artistic Director Musical.
[Menier Chocolate Factory]
At the Menier Chocolate Company, 53 Southwark Street
The Menier Chocolate Factory is a theatre located in the Southwark area of London, England. Originally a chocolate factory, the building was converted into a theatre in 2004 and has since become a popular venue for both plays and musicals. With a flexible yet small capacity, the Menier Chocolate Factory is known for its intimate and unique atmosphere, and has won numerous awards for its productions.
Since its opening, the Menier Chocolate Factory has played host to a variety of critically acclaimed productions, including several that have gone on to transfer to the West End and Broadway.
[Menier Chocolate Factory]
Warehouse. 1865-1874. Stock brick with stone dressings. Roof hidden behind brick and stone bracketed cornice. Rectangular plan with curved corners to returns. EXTERIOR: 5 storeys, 8-window range, tripartite windows to corners except for top floor where they are quadripartite. 3-window ranges to returns, the centre of each a hoist bay. Most openings are segmental-arched, doubled and round to top floor; side lights to tripartite corner windows are also round-arched. Many windows retain their original sashes: 1x1 to top floor, 3x3 to 2nd and 3rd floors, and 6x6 to 1st floor. Some 2nd-floor sashes are missing. Ground-floor windows were boarded over at time of survey. The ground floor has a stone cornice supported by rusticated brick piers with stone capitals. The side entrance on the curved east corner has a segmental keyed head and round-arched windows to either side. The centrally placed entrance on the main elevation has 2 doorways with segmental heads; they are flanked by Peterhead granite colonnettes with Corinthian capitals. All three 6-panel doors under segmental fanlights are original. Lower brick structure to the rear with segmental-arched openings. INTERIOR: not inspected. Tender mentioned in the "Builder" of 1865, but the structure does not appear to have been occupied until 1874.
[Historic England]
