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A community and professional production, Chipping Norton Theatre, June 2024

A sparkling, touching new play from the multi-Olivier Award winning and BAFTA nominated writer of King Charles III, Press and Doctor Foster.

Echoing and reshaping the themes of Lark Rise, Barn Dance traces the imagined history of an Oxfordshire barn and those that work and live there. Across a century of history that begins with the conscription of farmhands to fight in World War II, and ends with installation of a kitchen with underfloor heating, Barn Dance is a celebration of Oxfordshire – all that it is, and all that has changed along the way.

Performed in immersive promenade as part of our fiftieth anniversary celebrations.