A new musical based on Van Gogh's life premieres in Eastbourne this autumn.
Vagabond Skies - The Van Gogh Musical will be staged at the Devonshire Park Theatre from September 12-14.
The production, by Tony Norman and Mark Edwards, has combined an original score with an "array of emotional and memorable lyrics" to tell the dramatic story of Vincent Van Gogh’s life as an artist.
The Dutch painter is one of the most famous artists in the world but, as the musical portrays, during his life he was dismissed as a madman.
More information and tickets can be found at www.vagabondskies.com
Tony has had an eclectic career which has combined being an NME journalist, an official photographer for Brighton and Hove Albion and the brains behind a previous Eastbourne production of The Christmas Carol by Candlelight.
He said: "I got the idea over 50 years ago in the early 70s, when I was a music writer in London. I’d received a second-hand paperback copy of the letters between Van Gogh and his brother and it was just fascinating to read the unfiltered and raw character of them both."
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