Cold Comfort Farm

Adapted by Paul Doust, from the novel by Stella Gibbons

Think D H Lawrence and primal urges, Bronte brooding on the moors, with a good pinch of Evelyn Waugh. The novel is an affectionate satire of 1930s rural bodice ripping novels with literary references.

Well educated but poor, Flora, orphaned in her 20s, is homeless. She goes to her relatives, the Starkadder family of Cold Comfort farm, in the rural ghastliness of... Sussex.

Liking everything to be tidy, she sets about tidying her dysfunctional family: seemingly insane matriarch Aunt Ada, who saw ‘something narsty in the woodshed’ as a child, beautiful Elfine, who roams the hills writing poetry, Uncle Amos, who leads the religious cult of ‘The Quivering Brethren’ (and sisters), Rennet who throws herself in a well whenever 'Mark' is mentioned, let alone Cousin Judith’s obsession with her son Seth, who is lustily obsessed with his own gorgeousness.​

This amateur production of “Cold Comfort Farm” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd. www.concordtheatricals.co.uk

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