Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical Bend It Like Beckham: The Musical Bend It Like Beckham the Musical is a musical with music by Howard Goodall, lyrics by Charles Hart, and a book by Gurinder Chadha and Paul Mayeda Berges. Based on the 2002 film of the same name, the musical made its West End and world premiere at the Phoenix Theatre in May 2015. The musical is based on the 2002 film "Bend It Like Beckham". In late 2003, it was first revealed that the film's writer and director Gurinder Chadha planned to turn the film into a stage musical with the hope that it
A Girl Like Her not her mother, Fessler, an adoptee, was deeply moved by the woman’s story. She subsequently produced several autobiographical installations on adoption; two featured her previous short films "Cliff & Hazel" about her adoptive family, and "Along the Pale Blue River" (2001/2013) about her search for a yearbook picture of her mother. At each installation site, Fessler invited audience members to write and post their own adoption stories and based on the anonymous stories left behind by first mothers, she initiated an oral history project to collect the women’s stories. In 2002, Fessler began interviewing women who lost children to adoption