Comfort me with Apples

Accolades

Winner Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright.

Shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Award.

Setting

Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: Beauty of Bath, Kingston Black and Glory of the West.

Plot

Inside the farmhouse, the rule of the matriarch Irene is challenged when her estranged daughter returns and her middle-aged son, beginning to tire of being tied to the unprofitable farm, grows restless.

Theme

A richly evocative tale about life in our changing rural landscape.