Wild Rose: film about Glaswegian country singer to be turned into stage musical

The 2018 hit about a cleaner who dreams of becoming a star in Nashville will begin theatre run in Edinburgh

Wild Rose, the award-winning movie about a Glasgow country singer, is to be turned into a musical. Writer Nicole Taylor is adapting her 2018 screenplay and working with John Tiffany, the director of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child. The show will begin at the Royal Lyceum theatre in Edinburgh in March 2025, with further dates expected to be announced.

Taylor adapted the recent Netflix hit One Day, and her other small-screen credits include Three Girls, The Nest and The C Word. She said she always believed in the dramatic potential of Wild Rose: I held on to the rights, even though as a first-time writer I had no negotiating position and I'd never written a word for theatre. I knew it would take theatrical form at some point."