ROOTS

By Arnold Wesker

3 October – 30 November 2013

★★★★★
‘Raine’s meticulous, quivering performance has a beguiling honesty and vulnerability’
WhatsOnStage

★★★★
‘A meticulous and beautifully acted revival’
Independent

★★★★
‘A marvel of a performance from Linda Basset’
Guardian

It’s 1958. Beatie Bryant has been to London and fallen in love with Ronnie, a young socialist. As she anxiously awaits his arrival to meet her family at their Norfolk farm, her head is swimming with new ideas. Ideas of a bolder, freer world which promise to clash with their rural way of life.

Roots is the remarkable centrepiece of Wesker’s seminal post-war trilogy. Director James Macdonald directs Jessica Raine as Beatie in this portrait of a young woman finding her voice at a time of unprecedented social change.

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