#Nuwan Hugh Perera

[reallyhardy]

louis maskell as frodo baggins & nuwan hugh perera as samwise gamgee in the lord of the rings: a musical tale.

[unsightlymuse]

Thinking about this performance again…

Oh, I miss them so very much.

…

These were my immediate thoughts after seeing the show:

(And I still don’t think that I’ve fully recovered from the whole ordeal-)

[reallyhardydraws]

last bit of LOTR musicalposting from me tonight - sam & frodo, as played by the lovely nuwan hugh perera & louis maskell. HOW lucky am i that i got to see two of my UK theatre faves in one of my most very favourite musicals that i thought would never be staged again???

anyway, the road goes on. ever, ever on.

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[lordoftheringsmusical]

Newly released pictures of the Hobbits from The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale 🌻

📸 Pamela Raith, published by Anjali Mehra

[mischieffoal]

Sam 2023 LotR Musical references

I've been collecting reference images of lots of the cast and characters for my own art, so I thought I'd just share them collected here as well so others don't have to slog through the Instagram and crop images and screenshot videos etc. These are all from the Watermill Theatre Instagram/website/reviews, with most photos credited to Pamela Raith.

This one's Sam/Nuwan Hugh Perera:

I'm putting all these in #lotr 2023 references

[yomna-art]

enough time has passed, so I'm finally posting my art submission for the sleep walking animals art contest

I'm still really upset about the band taking a break, but I do wish them all the best😭❤️

Redbubble shop + Instagram + Twitter

[afro-hispwriter]

OH MY GOD SWA JUST RESPONDED TO MY DM🙏🏾

[dedicatednotobsessed]

Thank you si much for your help, you’re heaven sent!!! ;-; since i only messed up the number i’m confident the postman would figure out who is the going to and deliver it to the right address so things should be fine. I would like to double check something else though, how many emails was i supposed to get, only the one with the order confirmation or more? Once again, thank you so much!!! ><

I’m glad I could help! 🥰 and yeah, I only got the order confirmation even though it said you would get updates 😂😂 I blame everything on Jack though. Totally Jack’s fault 🤪

[ta-divchyna]

Louis Maskell and Nuwan Hugh Perera are here to brighten your day

[misssas]

I could cry!

[reallyhardy]

"you have so much to enjoy, and be, and do."

"i thought we'd do it together."

the lord of the rings: a musical tale at the watermill theatre, 2023.

bonus:

[noughticalcrossings]

The Light of Eärendil

Inktober day 2. Spider

The Watermill Theatre production of the Lord of the Rings musical was spectacular, I have little else to add

[seagull-energy]

Happy anniversary Watermill LotR!!!!!

To celebrate the one year anniversary of this lovely production, I've chosen to draw the entire cast with a notable quote by/related to them. For people who play multiple characters I've chosen my favorite one, and I've skipped quotes for the ensemble folk because they don't have many solo lines.

Drawings under the cut because this is going to be a longgg post

Louis Maskell as Frodo Baggins

Nuwan Hugh Perera as Sam Gamgee

Amelia Gabriel as Pippin Took

Geraint Downing as Merry Brandybuck

Aaron Sidwell as Aragorn

Yazdan Qafouri as Legolas

Folarin Akinmade as Gimli

Peter Dukes as Boromir

Patrick Bridgman as Gandalf

Charlotte Grayson as Rosie Cotton

Aoife O'Dea as Arwen

Tom Giles as Elrond

Sioned Saunders as Galadriel

Matthew Bugg as Gollum

John O'Mahony as Bilbo

Bridget Lappin as Ensemble (Lobelia Sackville-Baggins)

Kelly Coughlin as Ensemble (Mrs. Bracegirdle)

Reece Causton as Ensemble (Otho Sackville-Baggins)

Zara Naeem as Ensemble

Elliot Mackenzie as Ensemble (Haldir)

Missing from this collection are Georgia Louise (Galadriel) and Peter Marinker (Gandalf) because I did not get to see them when I went to the show. I may add Georgia later because I do really want to draw her and I know I have a friend or two who would appreciate it (hi salla 😄)

Anyway, HAPPY ANNIVERSARY WATERMILL LOTR!!!!!! I MISS YOU EVERY DAYYYY <3333333

[lordoftheringsmusical]

The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale

@ The Watermill Theatre, 2023

📸 Pamela Raith

[lotrmusical]

final now and for always from the lord of the rings musical at the watermill!

nuwan hugh perera (sam), louis maskell (frodo), matthew bugg (gollum)

[iconuk01]

From: "The Lord of the Rings: A Musical Tale" at the Waterside Theatre, Bagnor, near Newbury.

Video is not mine, but this show was AMAZING

When you arrive at the theatre, you don't go into the theatre at first, you all gather in a large garden area behind the theatre, which is set up with wooden benchs and tables, and a large, raised, circular stage.

This is the setting for the opening ten minutes, as the cast arrive, in character, and help set up for Bilbo's birthday, playing ringtoss games on the stage, or just wandering the tables, saying hello to the audience.

Then we start the folk music, and the cast join in on their instruments (Nearly every one of them plays at least two instruments as the show progresses, so they're providing their own music as they go along, with cast not involved in a scene usually providing background music from just off stage) as they have the birthday party, Bilbo gives his speech, disappears, and then the audience enters the theatre for the rest of the show (Well, almost, but that would be telling)

The choreographer, Anjali Mehra, combines English folk dancing, Morris dancing, as well as many elements from various Indian dancing that I don't know the names of, but recognise as being from there, and some just fun random stuff. (See video above)

Sam and Frodo

Legolas arriving at Lothlorien

The Lady Galadriel

I need to sleep now, or I'd try to describe how they did the Nazghul on a budget as well as a stunninly effective, if abstract, Balrog, and an utterly TERRIFYING Shelob, all in a tiny theatre (it only seats 220)!

But I will say their Sam (Nuwan Hugh Perera) is utterly endearing, and at the other end of the scale, their take on Gollum (Matthew Bugg) is astonishing, an utterly physical performance with the actor crawling around the stage, the galleries, the balcony itself, all whilst screeching or wheedling. He even gets a sort of duet with himself... and the later scene where, listening to Sam and Frodo sing "Now and for Always", a song of quiet Hobbit heroism, Gollum starts to relax and smile to himself and somehow visibly starts to come round to his Smeagol side again, before the encounter with the angry, distrustful Sam which drives him away, is heartbreaking.

Sam is singing lead here, with Frodo (Louis Maskell) sitting in front, Bilbo (John O'Mahony) and Rosie (Charlotte Grayson) in the background, with Pippin (Amelia Gabriel) on lute, Merry (Geraint Downing) on cello, Arwen (Aoife O'Dea) on harp and Elliott Mackenzie (ensemble) next to them.

Just beautiful!

Is it perfect? Well, it crams a lot into it's three hours, but cuts quite a lost of bits out, especially character development and quite a few major characters. As one critic noted, intros and motivation are basically reduced to "I am Xxxxx, I'm a zzzzzz and I'm friends with him but I don't like him and here's why"

So Rohan doesn't feature at all, Theoden and Denethor are sort of combined into one "Steward" and and Faramir isn't there at all... I guess if you're on a budget, the cavalry are the first to go. I also suspect if you don't know the story already, it's a bit of a skip over a LOT of things you need to know.

But that being said, the cast are sincere, the music is great and the staging is STUPENDOUS, so all in all, a great evening.