The Silver Cord
Sidney Howard
Sidney Howard
The Silver Cord, a critically acclaimed revival of Sidney Howard's classic play about family dysfunction and control, is completely sold out at the Finborough Theatre, with a stellar cast led by Sophie Ward and directed by Joe Harmston.
About The Play
About The Play
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Fringe Review Outstanding Show
Standing Ovation Nomination from London Pub Theatres
Best Ensemble Nomination from Off West End
Best Set Design Nomination from Off West End
★★★★★ Five stars, LondonTheatre1
★★★★★ Five stars, North West End UK
★★★★★ Five stars, AJH Loves Theatre
★★★★★ Five stars, Morning Star
★★★★ Four Stars, The Arts Desk
★★★★ Four Stars, London Pub Theatres
★★★★ Four Stars, The Stage
★★★★ Four Stars, The Upcoming
★★★★ Four Stars, Plays To See
★★★★ Four Stars, Breaking The Fourth Wall
★★★★ Four Stars, Everything Theatre
In a production commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, the first London production since 1927.
Boston, Massachusetts, 1925.
Wealthy widow, Mrs Phelps, is determined her two grown-up sons, David and Robert, will never leave her. Overbearing, suffocating and clingy, she expects to control every important decision for them. And when both sons announce their intention to get married, Mrs Phelps is determined to put a stop to it.
When the two young couples arrive at the family home, they come face to face with a mother who in the course of just 24 hours will stop at nothing to ensure she always remains the most important person in her sons’ lives…
Both a classic comedy of manners and a powerful Freudian insight into motherhood, family dysfunction and power, this production is a major rediscovery of playwright Sidney Howard, one of America’s most renowned dramatists of the first half of the twentieth century, best known today for his Oscar™ winning screenplay for Gone with the Wind (1939). His career was cut short by his tragically early death, his writing was often likened to his friend and contemporary Eugene O’Neill.
One of the most successful plays of the 1926-27 Broadway season, The Silver Cord was also a huge hit in the West End in 1927 starring Lilian Braithwaite – where it was compared to Noël Coward’s modern classic The Vortex – and was filmed in 1933, starring Irene Dunne and Joel McCrea.
Directed by Joe Harmston, and featuring a stunning in-the-round set by the Finborough Theatre’s long-time Resident Designer, Alex Marker, Sophie Ward (Chichester Festival Theatre, West End, Off Broadway, National Tours, and Young Sherlock Holmes) leads a cast including Finborough favourite Alix Dunmore (London Wall, and the title role in Jane Clegg), Jemma Carlton (recently seen in the title role in Maxine for Netflix), Dario Coates (OffWestEnd Award for Best Actor nominee, Northern Broadsides, Chichester Festival Theatre, Salisbury Playhouse, Nottingham Playhouse), and George Watkins (Bridgerton, and Three Men in a Boat and Deathtrap at The Mill, Sonning).