by Thomas Wolfe
Goodwood Theatre 166a Goodwood Road, Goodwood
November 16, 17, 22, 23, 24 @ 7.30, Matinees Sunday 18 @ 4.00; Saturday 24 @ 2.00, Early Tuesday 20, Wednesday 21 @ 6.30
by arrangement with ORiGiN Theatrical on behalf of Samuel French Inc.

North Carolina. 1916. But it could be anywhere. Any time.

Teenager Eugene Gant lives in a country town with his large, crazy family, and survives by reading great books. His home is the “Dixieland” boarding house, run by his domineering mother, Eliza, who is forever buying real estate and caring for her bizarre assortment of boarders rather than her family. She constantly battles with Eugene’s boozy, poetry-spouting father, W. O. Gant – a monumental mason, whose prize possession is a marble angel that represents the characters’ aspirations. Of all his siblings, Eugene most idolises his older brother, Ben, who knows the danger of entrapment by the family, and urges young Eugene to get away.

Caught in the stifling cross-fire between his romantic father and pragmatic mother, Eugene dreams of escaping to become a writer. But nothing complicates a dream like the arrival of your first great love.

Will he ever get away? Will he recover? Can he learn to understand and forgive?