Lark Rise

A drama written by Keith Dewhurst
Thursday 14 May 2026 - Friday 15 May 2026
& Saturday 16 May 2026
Poultry Yard at Coleshill Village

Times: Performances start 7:30 pm. Doors open 30 minutes earlier.
Tickets: Tickets will be available from our Online Box Office from 4-6 weeks prior to the first performance.

A literary sampler of English village life in late Victorian Oxfordshire, the play ‘Lark Rise’ 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.

FDS last performed Lark Rise in 1998.

Information evening on the 26th February and auditions 2nd March.

Production No.213 - 3 shows will be performed over 3 days. This amateur production of "Lark Rise" is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd., www.concordtheatricals.co.uk. The videotaping or making of electronic or other audio and/or visual recordings or streams of this production without prior permission is strictly prohibited, and is an offence under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.