The dramatisation of Sonya Hartnett’s ‘Thursday’s Child’ tells a loss of innocence, coming of age story.
Hartnett’s story which is given a stage adaptation by the Monkey Baa Theatre Company under the direction of Sandra Eldridge is set in the Great Depression.
Imogen Ross’s set vividly recreates the harsh life of the Depression with the Flute family trying to eke out an existence on their solitary farm. The play’s narrator is Harper Flute an older girl who recounts the experiences of her family. Her parents are battling for the family to live. He brother Tin, the Thursday’s Child of the title, has gone deep into his own world to get through. Flute has her own issues.
This was a fine production that vividly recreated the harsh world of the depression where people had too grow up far too quickly.
‘Thursday’s Child’ played the York theatre, the Seymour Centre from the 15th to 18th May, 2009 , and since had gone on an extensive, national tour with dates going until the middle of November, 2009.
