Helen Edmundson could never be accused of shirking a challenge. In her work with the visionary Shared Experience company she has adapted Anna Karenina, Mill On The Floss, and War And Peace successfully for the stage.
Now Shared Experience revives her play The Clearing, starring Joseph Millson and Aislin McGucklin. It is 1650, and Cromwell is waging his violent campaign against the Irish. In the middle of the forest of Kildare an English gentleman has planted a garden. He is also deeply in love with a clever-spirited Irishwoman, and hopes to keep the outside world at bay.
This passionate play embraces a vast sweep of history at the same time as showing the fragility of love. First performed at the Bush Theatre in 1993 it won the John Whiting Award.
The Clearing, from Tue 23 Apr, Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn Road, NW6 (020-7328 1000).
