Donmar Warehouse
41 Earlham Street
WC2
0870.060.6624
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The Chalk Garden
- When
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5 June 2008 – 2 Aug 2008
Mondays–Wednesdays (7:30pm)
Thursdays (2:30 & 7:30pm)
Fridays (7:30pm)
Saturdays (2:30 & 7:30pm)
- Where
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Tube: Covent Garden, Leicester Square
- Price
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£7.50 - 24
- Links
Enid Bagnold's dark comedy The Chalk Garden kicks off tonight at Donmar Warehouse's not-for-profit theatre. Bagnold, best known for penning Elizabeth Taylor vehicle National Velvet, used her own rambling manor in Rottingdean, Sussex, as the setting for the tale of 16-year-old Laurel, her eccentric grandmother and the mysterious governess who infiltrates their dysfunctional, unruly household. The deliciously bitter drama — which received the Hollywood treatment in 1964 with Hayley Mills and the Oscar-nominated Dame Edith Evans — is a timeless study of the ongoing fracas of the family unit.
