The White Carnation

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There have been strange rumours about this house. Although it was in a state of ruin, lights were seen in the windows every Christmas Eve: music was heard: voices and laughter... The first production in sixty years of R. C. Sherriff's supernatural drama. Christmas Eve, 1951. As Britain rebuilds itself after the war, John Greenwood has it all a successful business, a beautiful house and an aristocratic wife. But as he bids farewell to the guests leaving his annual Christmas party, a gust of wind slams the front door shut, starting a chain of events that makes him doubt everything he has ever known... From the writer of one of the 20th century's most acclaimed plays, Journeys End, The White Carnation is a ghostly tale of one mans chance to do things differently.

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R. C. Sherriff was born in 1896, and remains best known for his classic First World War masterpiece, Journeys End, recently revived for a long run in the West End Recent revivals have suggested that Sherriffs drama remains as hard-hitting and fresh as ever Lyn Gardner, The Guardian. His many screenplays include The Invisible Man (1933), The Four Feathers (1939), the Oscar-nominated Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939) and The Dam Busters (1955). Though Journeys End continued to define his career in the theatre, the post-Second World War period was an Indian summer for Sherriff with productions of Miss Mabel (1948), Home at Seven (1950) and The Long Sunset (1955). He died in 1975.