Playing Up, one of Bath's most popular community theatrecompanies, returns to The Rondo Theatre, Larkhall, next week with aplay guaranteed to dispel the double dip recession blues.
Originally published in 1932, Stella Gibbons' novel Cold ComfortFarm was an instant success and went on to eclipse all her otherwriting.
A parody of the loam and lovechild genre so popular at the time,the story humorously pokes fun at the plot lines, language andcharacters of writers such as Thomas Hardy and the Brontes.
Flora Poste, a modern urban woman, is orphaned and forced to movein with her mad relatives the Starkadders, who live on Cold Comfortfarm in Howling, …
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