Tickets: £17.50
With live music, high energy, multi role playing, humour and inventiveness, another classic novel is brought wonderfully to life – Hotbuckle style!
“To be loved to madness – such was her great desire. Love was to her the one cordial which could drive away the eating loneliness of her days. And she seemed to long for the abstraction called passionate love more than for any particular lover.”
Thomas Hardy’s The Return of the Native is a profound exploration of fate, society, nature, human desires and the indomitable forces that shape destiny.
Set against the haunting backdrop of Egdon Heath, the novel tells the story of Eustacia Vye, a young woman whose passionate longing for escape and fulfilment drives the narrative inevitably towards its tragic conclusion.
With live music, high energy, multi role playing, humour and inventiveness, another classic novel is brought wonderfully to life – Hotbuckle style!
Hotbuckle Productions have been performing at The Swallow Theatre every year for almost half of our 30 year history! This year we are delighted that Hotbuckle founder, writer and director Adrian Preater will be returning, joining Joanna Purslow in a cast of four.
The performance on Sunday 28 June at 6pm is planned to be an outdoor performance.
Bring your own chair or rug. We shall have a few benches and seats available if you cannot carry a chair.
You are welcome to bring a picnic.
If the weather is too wet or windy however the performance will be moved inside the theatre. Sorry, picnics cannot be taken into the theatre.
On the ‘Book Tickets’ page you will be asked to choose the seats you want should the performance be moved inside.
If the show is outside, then seating is unreserved.
Duration: approximately 2 hours 20 minutes including an interval (tbc).
Recommended age : tbc
To be confirmed – please contact us if you require details.
Images from previous shows by Hotbuckle Productions
Praise for previous work
A hard-working, multitasking cast … a highly persuasive and magical production
The Stage on Persuasion
Super slick and fabulously funny
Chris Eldon Lee on Pride & Prejudice
A most compelling and creative production which left a full house full of admiration
Virtual Shropshire on Great Expectations