The Chalk Garden
by:
Enid Bagnold (author)
Full Length, DramaCharacters: 2 male, 7 female Interior Set Revived to acclaim on the West End in 2008, this psychological chamber piece explores the secret world of childhood through the prism of a dyed-in-the-wool British dowager Mrs. St. Maugham and her precocious and equally eccentric...
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Full Length, DramaCharacters: 2 male, 7 female Interior Set Revived to acclaim on the West End in 2008, this psychological chamber piece explores the secret world of childhood through the prism of a dyed-in-the-wool British dowager Mrs. St. Maugham and her precocious and equally eccentric granddaughter Laurel. When enigmatic Miss Madrigal is hired as household companion and manager, the two finally meet their match. "A tantalizing, fascinating and stimulating piece of theatre."- New York Daily News "A very fresh and personal kind of play with wit, literacy, and an almost unearthly integrity." -New York Herald Tribune
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780573606892 (0573606897)
Publish date: December 15th 2010
Publisher: Samuel French
Pages no: 112
Edition language: English
bookshelves: play-dramatisation, spring-2011, families, gardening, period-piece, published-1955, doo-lally Read on March 14, 2011 Superb! and Una Stubbs in there too. R3 Sunday drama 13th Marchblurbifications - It is the mid-1950s. In a Sussex country house, the elderly Mrs St Maugham lives with...
Really loved this - very moving, wonderful and believable characters and ultimately redeeming.
Superb! and Una Stubbs in there too. R3 Sunday drama 13th Marchblurbifications - It is the mid-1950s. In a Sussex country house, the elderly Mrs St Maugham lives with her unruly granddaughter Laurel. Though without references, Miss Madrigal becomes the paid companion to Laurel. Only when The Judge v...
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