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Cold Comfort Farm

Full-Length Play, Dramatic Comedy  /  6w, 9m

Paul Doust, Stella Gibbons

Cold Comfort Farm
by Paul Doust, adapted from the novel by Stella Gibbons

"Paul Doust's new adaptation embraces the book with a stylistic exuberance." - Financial Times

Paul Doust's acclaimed adaptation of Stella Gibbons' tongue-in-cheek, classic novel. Cultured Londoner Flora ventures to Cold Comfort Farm, home of the Starkadder clan, where disorder is the order of the day.

  • Cast Size
    Cast Size
    6w, 9m
  • SubGenre
    Subgenre
    Adaptations (Literature), Period

Details

M9 (20s, middle age) F6 (20s, middle age, 60)

Flora Poste, Judith, Elfine, Aunt Ada, Rennet/Mrs Hawk-Monitor, Reuben, Amos/Sneller, Urk/Richard Hawk-Monitor, Adam/Mr Neck, Seth/Charles

  • Time Period 1930s
  • Setting A kitchen, an attic room, a garden
  • Features Period Costumes

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"Paul Doust's new adaptation embraces the book with a stylistic exuberance." - Financial Times

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Paul Doust

Author

Stella Gibbons

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