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A word from the playwright: "The hair-raising story of Charles and Mary Lamb cries out to be dramatised. Ten years ago I wrote Dream Children and performed it at Edinburgh. As a boy at Christ s Hospital fifty years ago I took part in the quarter centenary celebrations and subsequently played Malvolio, Macbeth and Richard III in Big School. We did one school play a year then. As a professional actor I ve worked with people like Hayley Mills, Alan Bates, Rex Harrison and Paul Scofield but I never imagined I d return, with Felicity Harrison and a present day Housey boy and girl, to give this haunting history. But here we are, with murder, madness and incest. Educated at Christ s Hospital 1782 -1789, the great essayist and poet, Charles Lamb, is the hero. The story had to be told - and what better time to tell it?"

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Author: John Watts
Design: Jeffrey Mayhew
Director: Jeffrey Mayhew