The Score

This is what happens when the composer Bach reluctantly visits the King Frederick 2nd in Prussia during the mid-1700s, on the brink of the Age of Enlightenment. The atheist king loves war, an avid student of military history. Bach is a deeply religious man who reads scripture. While the two could not be more different, the king has a great deal of respect for the composer’s talents. But when Frederick plays a mischievous musical game to confuse Bach and amuse his courtiers, things explode in an entirely unpredictable way.

Brian Cox most recently wowed TV audiences in HBO’s multi-award-winning series Succession. He stars as Johann Sebastian Bach. Cox’s career spans more than 60 years of award-winning work, a star in the sky of some of the world’s best-respected venues and theatre companies as well as a household name in Hollywood and on TV. Twice the winner of the Olivier for Best Actor, his role in Succession attracted a Golden Globe award and Emmy nominations. His real-life wife, Nicole Ansari-Cox, joins him on stage for this epic new drama, another well-loved face on the UK stage and screen as well as over the Atlantic. The creative team involves writer Oliver Cotton and Director Trevor Nunn with Robert Jones as the Set and Costume Designer and Johanna Town the Lighting Designer. Sophie Cotton is the Composer and Sound Designer, Cordelia Monsey the Associate Director, and the casting comes from Ginny Schiller CDG.