Ghostlight Ensemble presents The Dover Road by A.A. Milne

The Dover Road by A.A. Milne in an intimate and immersive setting at the historic Glessner House this spring. The 1921 comedy is set in the home of the eccentric Latimer, who waylays eloping couples & gives them a taste of what married life is like.

Welcome to the home of the eccentric Latimer, who waylays couples who are running away together and gives them a taste of what their lives together might be like by forcing them into sustained exposure to each other’s habits and idiosyncrasies. The Dover Road by A.A. Milne is a not-so-subtle dissection of romantic love with hints at the homosocial instinct of English upper-class men. Ghostlight’s production brings to the forefront the play’s implied observations on sexuality and gender expression that has always existed in society if you knew where to look. The rarely produced play premiered on Broadway in 1921 and in the West End in 1922. Today Milne is best known for his children’s books about the bear Winnie-the-Pooh. But before the massive success of the little bear from the Hundred Acre Wood overshadowed his previous work, Milne was primarily a playwright and humorist, who also dabbled as a novelist.

*Tickets are pay-what-you-will, with an average donation of $30