Cider With Rosie
A Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds Production
Cider With Rosie
Thursday 25 March 2010 - Saturday 27 March 2010
by Laurie Lee
A new adaptation by Daniel O’Brien
Directed by Abigail Anderson
‘I belonged to a generation which saw, by chance, the end of a thousand years’ life’
Rural Gloucestershire, England 1917. Horses pulling ploughs. Charabanc outings to Weston-super-Mare. The frozen white winters and blazing orange summers of memory. Heroic fourteen year old giant Spadge Hopkins. Tyrannical teacher Old Crabby. The warring ancient rival grannies Trill and Wallon. And of course that first, unforgettable, cider-fuelled encounter in the harvest fields. Laurie Lee’s story puts on record the England that we have traded for the petrol engine in an evocative prose poem that sparkles, winks and wryly smiles.
"He had a nightingale inside him" read his Guardian obituary – it will be heard singing clearly in this evocative, charming and lyrical production.
Start time: 7.45pm, Sat mat 2pm
Running time: t.b.c.
A £15 B £12.50 C £10
60+ £1 off / Conc. £2 off / Schools £7.50
Post show discussion Thursday 25 March
Audio described and signed performance Saturday Matinee 27 March
