Review of The Lovely Bones

Review-The Lovely Bones  Sadly this is a slow and sombre heartbreaking play, and is most tragic because it is based on actual events. The Lovely Bones true story comes both from a real murder and lived experience of Author Alice Sebold, who wrote the Novel.  

Holly Delchau plays the part of Susie Salmon, the fourteen year old that just wanted to be beautiful, have her teenage things like her favourite charm bracelet and enjoy her time and crush on a new boy at school. But her life was short lived when she soon discovered that she was looking down at the world and her family from the afterlife.  

Now that Susie is dead, she observes her family's grief and their struggles to cope as they are slowly torn apart. 

Her father is obsessed with finding the killer and believes it is their neighbour George Harvey. 

Her mother desperately seeks to find answers elsewhere and in the arms of another.

 Her sister now exploring and experiencing the road to sex. Something that Susie will never know. 

Susie watches from the afterlife and tries her hardest to help them but she doesn't know how.  

  The director Roslyn Johnson did an amazing job bringing this story to life with the use of fabulous video screening in the background just at the right time and using huge colourful and movable props that took over the stage, which gave us exactly the perfect scene we needed for each incident.  

All the songs in the play are popular and well known to everyone, one of them being “Sad eye's” which made me well up just a little during that scene. 

 The cast and crew worked well together and all performed remarkably good, even the hand directed animated acting plush family dog.      

  The tale of The Lovely Bones is a unique coming of age Novel by Alice Sebold that captured the hearts of readers worldwide. 

   Enjoyable and heartbreaking.  

Gingy Murphy