Whilst travelling in Germany, compiling a walking guide, Karl Klein goes missing. In a letter, he had told his brother Rolph that he was in love. Rolph goes looking for him, and his search leads to a grand old house at the foot of the Achen Pass, the last house before the long trek into the mountains. As Rolph learns more and more about the troubled inhabitants of Thalberg House and their honoured yet feared patriarch, in whose memory the town’s church bell was founded, his misgivings for Karl grow ever darker. 

Following their highly successful tours of The Fisherman & The Turtle in 2009 and Gallows Song in 2008, Common Ground now present The Bell a new play by Pat Whymark. Blending narrative and surrealism, physical theatre and live music, it is part murder mystery and part psychological drama.

“The beautifully told story ties the strands of the narrative into a moving and uplifting whole, punctuated by moments of wit and engagingly earthy humour…An intense and magical piece of theatre” EADT review of ‘The Fisherman & The Turtle’, July 2009

Funded by the Suffolk Foundation and Suffolk Single Gateway.