A Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds Production
Cider with Rosie
by Laurie Lee
in a new adaptation by Daniel O’Brien
directed by Abigail Anderson
designed by Dora Schweitzer
original music composed by TJ Holmes

‘I belonged to a generation which saw, by chance, the end of a thousand years’ life’ - Laurie Lee

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 charming and lyrical production.

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See the show on tour!
25 – 27 March – Taunton Brewhouse
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29 – 31 March – Corn Exchange, Newbury
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08 – 10 April – Theatre Royal Wakefield
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12 – 17 April – Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford
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20 – 21 April – The Theatre, Chipping Norton
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22 – 24 April – Laurance Batley Theatre, Huddersfield
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27 – 28 April – Buxton Opera House
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29 April – 01 May – Swan Theatre, Worcester
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11 – 13 May – Coliseum Theatre, Oldham
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14 – 15 May – South Holland Centre, Spalding
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18 – 19 May – Winchester Theatre Royal
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25 – 29 May – Oxford Playhouse
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