Country Magic

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T855803988 (FINBOROUGH09) Performance length: Approx 2 hoursCompany The Steam Industry (in association with Neil McPherson for the Finborough Theatre). Director Phil Willmott. Design Robin Don. Design Ruth Hall (associate design). Lighting Peter Bragg. Costume Penn O'Gara. Performer Daniel Abelson. Performer Andrew Boxer. Performer Paul Critoph. Performer Sarah Feathers. Performer Victoria Gee. Performer Jamie Hinde. Performer Moir Leslie. Performer Lachlan Nieboer. Performer Nicola Wright.

14 Apr 09 to 9 May 09

Finborough, Inner London :: V199 listing details L0973162698

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Play :: Oliver Bashford returns from the First World War crippled, facially disfigured, and hopeless about his future. Unable to face the high-society lifestyle he once enjoyed, he hides himself in the countryside where he encounters a lonely, seemingly unattractive local girl, Laura Pennington. Forced to protect himself from the interference of his social-climbing parents, he proposes marriage, although neither loves the other. The reluctant couple, however, fall under the spell of Murray Hillgrove, a neighbour blinded in the war whose optimism and belief in the power of love instigates an extraordinary, perhaps even magical, change in the couple. With his encouragement, Oliver and Laura do fall in love and, as they do undergo a mysterious and inexplicable transformation. But can this fragile and private enchantment survive the cruel scrutiny of sceptical outsiders?

Book by	Arthur Wing Pinero
Adapted by	Phil Willmott