Guildburys Theatre Company Present: Cold Comfort Farm
Guildburys Theatre Company Present: Cold Comfort Farm adapted by Paul Doust from the novel by Stella Gibbons
Wednesday 25th – Saturday 28th March at 7.30pm
Tickets : £22. U18 concession £17.50
Following their hugely successful production of Hangmen at Nomads, Guildburys Theatre Company return with “Cold Comfort Farm”.
Set in the 1930’sin the fictional village of Howling Sussex, the story follows Flora Poste, a young, sensible and “slender of ankle” socialite who is recently orphaned. Lacking an inheritance she decides to visit her distant relatives, the eccentric and doom-laden Starkadders, at their decaying farm. Armed with “The Higher Common Sense” Flora finds the farm in a state of chaotic misery and determines to “tidy up” her relatives lives by forcing them into the 20th century.
They are a crazy bunch………
Aunt Ada Doom: The terrifying matriarch who rules the familyfrom her bedroom, manipulating everyone by claiming she “saw something nasty in the woodshed “as a child
The beautiful Elfine: who roams the hills writing poetry
Uncle Amos:A fire-and-brimstone preacher of “Quivering Bretheren” sect who believes there will be “no butter in hell”
Cousin Judith: Heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness and engrossed in her son Seth, who is lustily obsessed with his own gorgeousness and dreams of Hollywood stardom
Not to mention Seth’s brother, despairing Reuben, and Adam Lambsbreath – an elderly farmhand who cleans dishes with a “twig” and is devoted to his four cows: Graceless, Aimless, Feckless and Pointless
The Archers, as performed by The Marx Brothers….hilariously barking mad!
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This amateur production of Cold Comfort Farm is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd