Little Women
Tuesday March 3–Saturday March 7
£10.00 – £17.50“I’ve had a lot of troubles, so I write jolly tales” – Louisa May Alcott
Is art a way for us to conjure back what has been lost? Emma Reeve’s adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s story of family, growing up and survival brings this question into focus, told through the day-to-day triumphs and tribulations of the March family. It is a question that Alcott grapples with in her semi-autobiographical novel, which was written in the wake of her sister’s death. In writing about a family based on her own, Alcott brings back to life the memories of her sister, their childhood, and a time when dreams would become realities – all that was now gone.
A one hundred-and-fifty-year-old story, Little Women, begins in the middle of things, centred around four sisters and their mother in New England during the American Civil War. The home becomes its own battlefield of survival as the women navigate the complexities and perennial conflicts intrinsic to families, finances, love and growing up. As time goes on, childhood gives way to adulthood as life is transformed, with much lost and gained in the process.
Times – Nightly performances at 7.45 pm with a matinee at 2.30 pm on Satuarday.
Tickets – £10.00 to £17.50
For info go to https://www.adctheatre.com/whats-on/play/little-women/
What’s Ons are broadcast across the day at 7.50, 10.30, 1.30 and 4.30, and at weekends.
To get your event included email: Karen Stringer