In 1913, Rudyard Kipling was England's most famous living author - creator of The Jungle Books, The Man Who Would Be King, Kim, Gunga Din. He was also a fervent patriot, and proponent of England's opposition to Germany.

He felt duty-bound to send his son, Jack, to war, despite the boy being legally blind.

This triggered a bitter family conflict, which left Britain's most renowned patriot devastated by the warring of his own greatest passions - his love for his children, and his devotion to King and Country.

Written as a play by actor, David Haig, the recent film starred Haig, with Daniel Radcliffe as Jack.

David Roach and Kathryn Fisher will play Rudyard and Carrie Kipling.

BASED ON A TRUE STORY ! ! !

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A brand new stage adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's outrageously funny social satire on society, snobbery and greed.

Alluringly resourceful, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background, and claws her way up the social ladder. Meanwhile, her sentimental friend, Amelia, pines for a two-timing soldier. As the two heroines weave their way through the bawdy, tawdry glamour of Regency society -- even paying a visit to the Battle of Waterloo! -- they encounter a delicious assortment of rogues, rakes, dandies and lecherous lords.

Becky Sharp is one of literature's most fascinatingly ruthless heroines, and a clear model for Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind. Recent film and television adaptations have tended to be rather serious, because they omit Thackeray's scintillating narrations -- where all the novel's humour lies.

Rob Croser's new adaptation retains the narrative voice -- thus restoring the novel's wickedly funny satire, as it explodes onto the stage in a riot of circus colour and outrageous comedy.

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