It is a confident and thrilling portrayal.ĭanny John-Jules excels as the disabled Teabing, obsessive in his desire to find the Holy Grail which will reveal how the Church has kept secret Jesus’s lineage. Making her UK theatrical debut, Hannah Rose Caton is totally credible as Sophie, prepared to risk everything to uncover what happened to Saunière who turned out to be her estranged grandfather. Nigel Harman, best known for playing Dennis Rickman in the BBC soap EastEnders, shines as the erudite yet slightly awkward Langdon who is driven in his search for the truth. The three actors playing the main protagonists in The Da Vinci Code all give superb performances. Langdon and Neveu have to solve a complicated puzzle to prevent a historical truth being lost for ever. Saunière left a cryptic message and the police tell Langdon he has been summoned to decode it. If you do not know the plot, The Da Vinci Code features American symbologist Robert Langdon and cryptologist Sophie Neveu who try to find out why Louvre curator Jacques Saunière has been murdered. And after only a few minutes watching director Luke Sheppard’s take on the show, I got the feeling that I was watching something exceptionally clever.Īs in The Girl on the Train, the action hurtles along, astutely taking the audience to several locations including the Louvre in Paris, a couple of churches, the French branch of a Swiss bank and the chateau of Holy Grail expert Sir Leigh Teabing. I’ve only just read the book and seen the film, so I was eager to see how the work would transfer into a theatre setting.
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Now Rachel Wagstaff and Duncan Abel who in 2019 turned Paula Hawkins’s The Girl on the Train into a play have deciphered how to put The Da Vinci Code onto the stage. It was denounced by many Christian denominations as an attack on the Catholic Church and criticised for its theory that Jesus Christ and Mary Magdalene had a child together.īut that did not stop Ron Howard making it into a film featuring Tom Hanks, Audrey Tautou and Sir Ian McKellen. Dan Brown’s 2003 mystery thriller The Da Vinci Code has sold more than 80 million copies and been translated into 44 languages.
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