By Sebastian Barry
Directed by Max Stafford-Clark
Cast includes Niamh Cusack
Dates
16 – 20 February
Celebrated children’s writer Hans Christian Andersen arrives, unannounced, for a stay at Gad’s Hill Place in the Kent marshes - home to Charles Dickens and his large, charismatic family.
To the lonely and eccentric guest, the members of Dickens’s household seem to live a life of unreachable bliss. But with his broken English, Andersen doesn’t at first see the storms brewing within the family: undeclared passions, a son about to go to India, and a growing strangeness at the heart of Dickens’s marriage.
Sebastian Barry’s novel The Secret Scripture won the 2008 Costa prize, and he has been twice nominated for the Booker prize. His plays include the international hit The Steward of Christendom, Our Lady of Sligo and Hinterland. Max Stafford-Clark directs this haunting new play, rich in characters and touched with a wistful humour.
“Out of Joint – a must-see company” Time Out
Venue
Main House
Offers
Performance dates & times
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Tue 16
Feb
, 7.30pm
Meet the Cast / Young Person -
Wed 17
Feb
, 7.30pm
Pay What You Can -
Thu 18
Feb
, 7.30pm
Signed / Described - Fri 19 Feb , 7.30pm
- Sat 20 Feb , 3pm
- Sat 20 Feb , 7.30pm
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