Directed by John Terry and Mike Bartlett.

Designed by Alex Marker.

The first full revival since the original National Theatre production

Intimate, chaotic and playful, Lark Rise to Candleford is a vibrant adaptation of Flora Thompson's classic trilogy of forgotten rural life, recalling an era when the traditional ways and values were disappearing beneath the clamour of modern life and the carnage of the First World War.

With a dynamic promenade staging, featuring extensive live folk music, the productions immerses the audience in the intense forgotten communities of a vanishing rural England.

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Intimate, chaotic and playful, Lark Rise to Candleford is a vibrant adaptation of Flora Thompson's classic trilogy of forgotten rural life, recalling an era when the traditional ways and values were disappearing beneath the clamour of modern life and the carnage of the First World War.

As the winner of the Peter Brook Empty Space Mark Marvin Award, this is Shapeshifter's biggest and most ambitious project to date. With a dynamic promenade staging, featuring extensive live folk music, the productions immerses the audience in the intense forgotten communities of a vanishing rural England.

Lark Rise to Candleford creatively re-invents the tiny Finborough theatre as the highways, outhouses and smoky taverns of the hamlet, bringing every aspect of this lost lifestyle to the stage, from the midwinter fox hunt to the midsummer harvest, climbing trees and throwing snowballs.

Lark Rise

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.

Candleford