Lark Rise

A drama written by Keith Dewhurst
Thursday 7 May 1998 - Saturday 9 May 1998
Faringdon Corn Exchange, Corn Market, Faringdon SN7 7JA
Directed by Dave Headey & Carolyn Taylor

Times: Performances start 7:30 pm. Doors open 30 minutes earlier.
Tickets were available from Reflections, 8 Marlborough Street, Faringdon.

The play ‘Lark Rise’ is based on the book by Flora Thompson. The action takes place in and around the hamlet of Lark Rise in the late 1880s. It is the first day of the harvest. The scenes in Act I are set in the Timms family cottage, the gardens of neighbouring cottages, on the village green, and in fields around the village. In Act 2 there are also scenes on the way to the “big house”, in the village pub, and in the church. The final scene is thirty years later.

Flora Thompson was born in 1876 and spent her early childhood in the hamlet of Juniper Hill, near Bicester. Her book “Lark Rise” is an account of the life she remembered; the only names she changed were her own (Flora became Laura) and her brother’s (Edwin became Edmund). The dialogue and many of the scenes in the play, although they did not take place on a single day, are taken straight from the book.

More info? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lark_Rise

Karen Whiffen; Lois Wells; Tom Woolman

Tom Woolman; Lois Wells; Karen Whiffen

Dave Headey; Tom Woolman; Lois Wells; Karen Whiffen

?; David Campbell; Roger Leitch; Adrian Wells

Peter Webster; Roger Leitch; David Campbell; Dave Headey;

Joan Lee; Lois Wells

Kathryn Whiffen; Rebecca Lock; Karen Whiffen

Adrian Wells; Ashley Bates; Joan Lee; Rebecca Lock; Karen Whiffen; Walther & Irene Schoonenberg

Ashley Bates; Rebecca Whiffen; Tom Woolman; Rebecca Lock; Kathryn Whiffen; Claire Green

Adrian Wells; Dave Campbell; Roger Leitch; Richard Lock; Ken Brown; Clive Gilson

Photographs by kind permission of Ian Smith (founder of the ‘Faringdon Folly’ newspaper)

Production No.127 - 3 shows were performed over 3 days.