Information for Lark Rise at Chipping Norton Theatre, Chipping Norton (Play). Laura is a ten year old girl, living in the tiny village of Lark Rise. The village is full of characters that Laura knows well: lewd farmers, singing drinkers, shouting beekeepers and gossiping women. But as she watches old men removed to the work house, soldiers returning from war, and overhears her father speaking of Gladstone and workers rights, she realises that this way of life cannot last forever, and that change may be inevitable.