The Door Marked Winter - Graig Du Theatre Players

This enthralling play for children is another under consideration by the players.

"On St Swithin's Day, if the rains come to our apple orchids, the trees will be christened." Jessica, a nine-year-old,could not remember the first time she had heard that phrase. Emily Heller, the girl who whispered the words into her ear, was of the same age. As the dreams became more peculiar, Jessica sprains her ankle and is treated by Emily's father, whose face she cannot see, by the putting of comfrey leaves around her foot to ease the swelling. This dream, as with the other strange incidents she has seen, are about to come true. She remembered the words Emily's father told her to tell her gran: "The inside of a banana skin is to be rubbed on the red sores on your grandmother's face that are irritating her. Her condition will soon pass." Jessica told her gran in her dream while she was still sleeping and her grandmother tried the remedy with great  success. Over the winter months, Jessica and her younger brother Tom are curious to see new neighbours moving into the house next door. The parents were rarely seen and Jessica instantly recognized Emily as the girl she had seen in her dreams. Tom becomes friends with Emily's brother Henry. Both children speak in an old-fashioned way and the children in the street make fun of them. Emily inadvertently tells Jessica their secret one day and how they walked through the door marked winter. What of the children's father, the enigmatic Dr. Daniel Heller, who has transported his children from the 1880s in a Somerset village, to a terraced house in the Rhondda in the present day. By the time Emily has told Jessica how desperate her father is, heartbroken, in his  attempt to save the life of his wife and baby son, Jessica will do anything she can to help the family and travel back into the past with them.

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