It has been announced that Storm in a Flower Vase and Dickens Abridged will both receive runs at the West End's Arts Theatre later this year.
Alan Strachan directs Anton Burge’s Storm in a Flower Vase, a vivid portrait of the iconic floral designer Constance Spry. Enigmatic and eccentric, Spry is best known as a society florist and best-selling cookery writer who popularised a do-it-yourself approach to home-making in mid 20th Century Britain.
Anton Burge’s new play is a sensitive look at this pioneering spirit who, behind the flamboyant glamour associated with names such as Cecil Beaton and Syrie Maugham, was a complex and unconventional woman with a life of marital discord, affairs and heartache. Storm in a Flower Vase takes its inspiration from The Surprising life of Constance Spry by Sue Shepherd (published by Pan Books).
