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LAURA by Rupert Stutchbury.
An intimate one hour show - directed by Karen Minihan, featuring Fiona York as Laura, with musical accompaniment by pianist Susan Nares.
History remembers great man. Sometime it forgets the women who quietly shaped the cultural life of their age. By turns humorous, moving and thought provoking, Laura brings to life the remarkable story of Laura Barker: composer, arist, wife, mother and friend to some of Victorian Britain's most celebrated literary and artistic figures.
From childhood in a Yorkshire rectory to the glittering salons of London Society, we encounter some of the vibrant people who filled her world, while discovering a woman whose own story has largely slipped from public memory.