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Albion
Pinner Players present Albion, by Mike Bartlett
Where: Pinner Village Hall, Chapel Lane
Pinner, Middlesex HA5 1AA
Powerful drama with witty black comedy moments
“Most other countries preserve their past. The embarrassed and insecure English discard it. And then complain when the replacement isn’t any good” -- Audrey
‘Albion’, a once celebrated English country garden created by a World War One army captain to memorialise his fallen colleagues, has gone to rack and ruin.
Audrey Walters is on a mission.
Grieving from the death of her own son in combat, she relocates her family to rural Oxfordshire and single-mindedly sets about restoring the garden to its past glory.
In doing so, give life to her nostalgic connection to the past.
But Audrey’s actions and obsession with the garden and its ghosts of the past comes at a cost to the living...
... as her relationships with family, friends and the local community decay around her
