Carlton Theatre Group, Wimbledon's longest running amateur dramatics group - formed in 1927 as Carlton Dramatic Society by a group of theatre enthusiasts based at St Barnabas Church in Wimbledon - presents: Cold Comfort Farm by Paul Doust.

Think D H Lawrence and primal urges, Bronte brooding on the moors, with a good pinch of Evelyn Waugh. The novel is an affectionate satire of 1930s rural bodice ripping novels with literary references.

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Well educated but poor, Flora, orphaned in her 20s, is homeless. She goes to her relatives, the Starkadder family of Cold Comfort farm, in the rural ghastliness of... Sussex.

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Liking everything to be tidy, she sets about tidying her dysfunctional family: seemingly insane matriarch Aunt Ada, who saw ‘something narsty in the woodshed’ as a child, beautiful Elfine, who roams the hills writing poetry, Uncle Amos, who leads the religious cult of ‘The Quivering Brethren’ (and sisters), Rennet who throws herself in a well whenever 'Mark' is mentioned, let alone Cousin Judith’s obsession with her son Seth, who is lustily obsessed with his own gorgeousness.