Based on the novel by Mary Hayley Bell and the Screenplay by Willis Hall and Keith Waterhouse
and the film by Richard Attenborough and Bryan Forbes
Adapted by Russell Labey and Richard Taylor

This adaptation of Mary Hayley Bell's celebrated novel and its film incarnation (which starred the author's daughter, Hayley Mills, and Alan Bates) was an absolute triumph in its English stage premiere and subsequent presentation at the Edinburgh Theatre Festival. When three rural children discover a wounded fugitive hiding in their barn, they believe him to be Jesus Christ. In a vow of secrecy, the village children harbor the stranger. When he is ultimately betrayed, the adults rush to "save" their children with sorrowful consequences. A parable about faith, conviction and the fragile optimism of youth, full of love, laughter, beautiful music, WHISTLE DOWN THE WIND is a musical that soars with human spirit.