Cider With Rosie
From: Tuesday, 16th April 2013
To: Saturday, 20 April 2013
Our Review: 
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Synopsis
Laurie Lee's early recollections of summer days and early love. The play is a vivid memoir of childhood in a remote Cotswold village, a village before electricity or cars, a timeless place on the verge of change. Laurie Lee died in 1997.
Our Review:
Roz Carter - 16 April 2013
Based on Laurie Lee’s seminal novel, the Cheltenham Everyman production of Cider with Rosie attempts to capture the innocent spirit of a childhood spent in a tight-knit community in the Cotswolds just after the turn of the 20th century. However this production fails to translate the rural warmth Lee so famously illustrated in his novel and leaves the audience cold, and at times, restless.
Phil R Daniels and Charles Cusick Smith’s bleached wood set is charmless and fails to invoke the warmth of a loving family home, which makes the actor’s jobs that much harder. Although a gauze with a violin cut out adds interesting texture, instead of utilising Michael E Hall’s lighting design to its best advantage the setting instead relies upon quick fixes – such as white sheets to symbolise snow – rather than engaging the audience’s imagination.
The ensemble cast certainly give energetic performances and [N...
Cast
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Laurie Lee (Book)
Everyman Theatre Company (Producer)
Nick Darke (Adaptation)
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