If you didn't already know what sort of play to expect, the principal characters' names would tip you off. Mrs. St. Maugham is the steely yet arbitrary grande dame of a Sussex manor house. Laurel is ...

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Revived to acclaim on the West End in 2008, this psychological chamber piece explores the secret world of childhood through the prism of a dyed-in-the-wool British dowager Mrs. St. Maugham and her ...

The Ghent Playhouse is presenting “The Chalk Garden,” a play by Enid Bagnold which had many Tony nominations when it bowed on Broadway in 1955 and a starry movie adaptation with Deborah Kerr and ...

The Chalk Garden (by Enid Bagnold) is one of those rare plays that are genuinely and fascinatingly individual. When the curtain rises on a Cecil Beaton drawing room in Sussex, nothing could look more ...