Cider With Rosie
Last Update 03-Jul-2008
From Monday 11 June 2001
To Saturday 16 June 2001
Author - Laurie Lee
adapted by James Roose-Evans
Description
The classic book of Cotswold life brought delightfully to the stage in an imaginative version which catches the poetry and utilizes a simple open set. The challenge is all in the playing as there are 4 adult speaking parts, of which 20 could be created by as few as 5 players. Fancy stretching yourself?
"Beautiful, touching, poetic and imaginative." A stage adaptation of Laurie Lee's lyrical biography about his childhood in the Cotswolds. Heart-warming and humours. A modern classic.
Press Release
This, the last play of "The Rose" season is a modern classic "Cider with Rosie" by Laurie Lee adapted for the stage by James Roose-Evans, who this year happens to be directing the Ludlow festival.
"Cider with Rosie" is Laurie Lee's poetic evocation of childhood. The play's style, therefore, is not naturalistic but rather a cascade of images and sounds, as the adult author endeavours to recreate the intensity of his younger self's experiences and emotions. The precision of his language exquisitely captures, for instance, the scatty, garrulous and emotional nature of his Mother. Yet she it was who taught him and his siblings to love books, music and to observe nature.
Similarly he conjures up the essence of family and village life, often isolated communities in the early 1920's.