CHURCH HILL THEATRE, Morningside Road, Edinburgh.
17th - 20th March 2010 at 7:30pm
Tickets: £9.00, Concessions £7.00
It is the summer of 1918, and the end of the war sees the young Laurie Lee moving to a new home in a Cotswold village. Life here is peaceful, slow and governed by the seasons. It is a child’s paradise. That is until Lee meets two warring Grannies, a goat, and the tantalizing temptation of supping cider with Rosie Burdock…
Laurie Lee’s autobiography, ‘Cider with Rosie’, became a modern classic, selling over four million copies. In this adaptation, James Roose-Evans has skilfully and imaginatively recreated Laurie Lee’s poetic evocation of his childhood for the stage.
Lee was born at the start of the First World War and grew up during a time of change, when the rural traditions of past centuries were being swept aside in the path of twentieth century progress. As Laurie Lee reached manhood, the old world was vanishing and he gives us a haunting vision of its last days.