![]() As is typical in a certain genre of romantic 19th-century and early 20th-century literature, each of the farm’s inhabitants has some long-festering emotional problem caused by ignorance, hatred, or fear, and the farm is badly run. ![]() The inhabitants of the farm – Aunt Ada Doom, the Starkadders, and their extended family and workers – feel obligated to take her in to atone for an unspecified wrong once done to her father. ![]() Tickets were available from Faringdon Travel, 11 Market Place, Faringdon.įollowing the death of her parents, the book’s heroine, Flora Poste, finds she is possessed “of every art and grace save that of earning her own living.” She decides to take advantage of the fact that “no limits are set, either by society or one’s own conscience, to the amount one may impose on one’s relatives”, and settles on visiting her distant relatives at the isolated Cold Comfort Farm in the fictional village of Howling in Sussex. Thursday 21 July 1994 - Saturday 23 July 1994įaringdon Community Theatre, The Pump House, 5 Market Place, Faringdon ![]()
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