Quartet in Autumn

This is a very interesting bit of programming from the Arcola: the first ever stage adaptation of the great – if underrated – British novelist Barbara Pym, written by no less than Samantha Harvey, the exquisitely evocative writer responsible for the Booker-winning Orbital. Pym was herself Booker nominated for her late novel, which follows four interdependent friends in the late years of their lives. Ex-Globe boss Dominic Dromgoole makes for a heavyweight director of cast comprising Anthony Calf, Kate Duchêne, Pooky Quesnel and Paul Rider.