Comfort me with Apples

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Winner Evening Standard Most Promising Playwright. Shortlisted for Susan Smith Blackburn Award. Autumn, and the orchard is full of cider apples: Beauty of Bath, Kingston Black and Glory of the West. Inside the farmhouse, the rule of the matriach Irene is challenged when her estranged daughter returns and her middle-aged son, beginning to tire of being tied to the unprofitable farm, grows restless. A richly evocative tale about life in our changing rural landscape.

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Nell Leyshon writes drama and fiction. Her radio plays have been broadcast on Radio 4 and her stories have appeared in various anthologies. The Farm is her first stage play.