Evenings: 7.30pm/ Matinees: Wed & Sat 2.30pm

Bill Kenwright presents
The Acclaimed National Theatre Adaptation of
The Heartwarming Portrayal of 19th Century Life

By Keith Dewhurst
Adapted from Flora Thompson’s memoirs

Following the success of the award-winning BBC television series, Bill Kenwright presents a fresh new revival of Keith Dewhurst’s original stage adaptation of the much loved Lark Rise to Candleford. Based on the first book of Flora Thompson’s trilogy of semi-autobiographical novels, this play was first performed at London’s National Theatre in 1978 and was nominated for two Olivier awards.

Seen through the eyes of young Laura Timms, the play follows a day in the life and relationships of the farm workers, craftsmen and gentry of the fictional hamlet of Lark Rise at the end of the nineteenth century. It is the first day of harvest, and the villagers celebrate with the simple pleasures of music, song and dance, creating a moving and evocative picture of a forgotten England.

“Gives you a nostalgic hankering for simpler things”Daily Telegraph

The superb company of fifteen actors and musicians includes Sara Crowe (Four Weddings and a Funeral, Calendar Girls, Corstorphine Road Nativity); Eric Richard (Sgt. Bob Cryer in The Bill); Jonathan Ansell (the lead singer from X Factor sensation G4); Becci Gemmell (Land Girls) and Christopher Beeny (Last of the Summer Wine, Upstairs, Downstairs.) Music is by folk icon Ashley Hutchings, founder of Fairport Convention, Steeleye Span and The Albion Band.

“It will send most spectators out wiser and happier human beings…one of those rare theatrical occasions with a genuine healing quality”The Guardian