THE DRUID'S REST Comes To The Finborough Theater September 6th

In a pub in the small Welsh village of Ton-y-maes, the locals are preparing for the Eisteddfod, while the publican's young bookworm of a son is reading of mystery and murder. Until an enigmatic Englishman arrives who is not who he appears to be...

Drawing on Emlyn Williams' own childhood in Flintshire, where his parents ran the White Lion Inn, this classic autobiographical Welsh comedy by the author of Night Must Fall and The Corn is Green was first produced in 1944 with Richard Burton making his stage debut. This production is the first London production in sixty years.

Director David Cottis returns to the Finborough Theatre following his successful production of Sam, the Highest Jumper of Them All (Four Stars, Whatsonstage) and after a long career on the fringe including six years as the Literary Manager of the Etcetera Theatre where he ran the One-Person Play Festival, winner of a Guinness Ingenuity Award and a Time Out Critics' Choice. His recent work includes Sam the Highest Jumper of Them All (Finborough Theatre), Doctor Faustus (Riverhouse Arts Centre), The Nativity (Northampton), the UK premiere of Charles Marowitz's Caesar (Broadway Theatre, Catford)The Menaechmi (Shakespeare's Globe), Timon of Athens (Camden People's Theatre), Richard III (Broadway Theatre, Catford), and The Servant of Two Masters (Venezia! Festival, Northampton).

Emlyn Williams (1905-1987) was one of the most successful actors and playwrights of the 1930s and 1940s, sometimes referred to as 'the Welsh Noël Coward'. His greatest successes included the psychological thriller Night Must Fall (1935) and the autobiographical The Corn is Green (1938), filmed with Bette Davis. His film appearances as an actor included Hitchcock's Jamaica Inn, Hatter's Castle and Alexander Korda's unfinished I, Claudius, as Caligula to Charles Laughton's Claudius. For many years, he lived at Dovehouse Street in Chelsea, a short walk from the Finborough Theatre.

Sundays and Mondays
6, 7, 13, 14, 20 and 21 September 2009
Evenings at 7.30pm
Tickets £13, £9 concessions
Performance Length: Approximately 2 hours.
Box Office: 0844 847 1652