EARLY DAYS by David Storey at the Finborough Theatre .......

For the first time in 30 years, EARLY DAYS is playing in London at the Finborough Theatre.     Directed by Tim Newns and starring Simon Molloy as Kitchen.

Kitchen has a lot of excuse for behaving badly.    Suffering from dementia and, unable to care for himself, he s trapped in his daughter's house under constant surveillance by his loving but suffocating family.

".... an elegaic play and a quietly touching portrayal of of the bafflement of old age............ directed by Tim Newns in celebration of the Author's forthcoming 80th birthday and it is a worthy tribute ...................."  Giles Cole What'sOn Stage

"Not for nothing has the Playwright been described as an English Chekhov.  This sliver of a play, small in construction but big in heart, transposes some of the poetic realism of the great Russian writer to an English country garden in the 1970s......... a master of dramatising the unsaid...."       Lyn Gardner The Guardian

Photograph by Charlie Kerson