Yesterday was the last performance of Tom Felton’s play.”A Child of Science”. The play ran at the Bristol Old Vic Theater from June 5th to July 6th, 2024.
Tom Felton and Meg Bellamy joined Alex Jones and Jermaine Jenas on the BBC The One Show on Wednesday. Tom and Meg Bellamy spoke about their new play, A Child Of Science, which tells the story of the discovery of IVF.
You can watch the full interview on the BBC iplayer (available for 28 days) or below (the interview starts at 6:03):
Thanks to Blu Skyy Orkastar for recording and uploading the interview.
As we reported here, Tom Felton will star in the world premiere of Gareth Farr’s A Child of Sciencefrom 5th June – 6th July 2024.
Bristol Old Vic has now released the poster for the play and a behind the camera video at the photoshoot for “A Child of Science” with the cast.
Rehearsals start next week and will be on stage in under six weeks.
Tom Felton stars as medical maverick Robert Edwards
In 1978, Patrick Steptoe, Robert Edwards, and Jean Purdy changed the world as we know it – and most people don’t even know their names. Bruntwood Prize-winning writer Gareth Farr’s brilliant new play tells their pioneering story, and those of the army of women from all over the UK whose immense bravery helped them achieve the impossible – to create human life in vitro. Faced with fierce criticism and hostility, and hounded by the media for “playing God”, trials were kept largely under wraps. But their determination to give hope to the thousands of families struggling to conceive eventually led to one of the most remarkable medical breakthroughs of our time: the birth of a baby girl and the creation of IVF, a procedure which has supported the birth of over 12 million babies worldwide over the last 45 years. Directed by the highly acclaimed West End director Matthew Dunster (Hangmen, 2:22 A Ghost Story, Shirley Valentine) and starring Tom Felton (Harry Potter), Jamie Glover (Waterloo Road, Casualty), Meg Bellamy (The Crown), Adelle Leonce (Fool Me Once, Black Mirror), Sonoya Mizuno (House of the Dragon), and more, A Child of Science is about determination, dreams, hope, and courage. It’s a celebration of life.
