Strange Orchestra

The Orange Tree is well known for championing many a neglected dramatist and in the case of Rodney Ackland their current revival strikes particular resonance for it's in Richmond that he died in 1991. Strange Orchestra dates from 1932 when Ackland was in his twenties and just beginning his career. In the Bloomsbury flat of Vera, a slovenly bohemian with the archetypal 'heart of gold,' a group of restless young people party, squabble and seek definition for their rather rootless lives- a scenario given a cosy canvas by Sam Dowson's intimately cluttered set.

( Production photos by Robert Day)