A NEWLY-ADAPTED version of The Four Men by Hilaire Belloc tours his home county of Sussex and beyond this autumn.
The Four Men follows Belloc, as he takes a spur-of-the-moment Hallowe’en journey on foot across the breadth of Edwardian Sussex, from east to west, with three companions.
During their four-day odyssey, they travel 92 miles, drink 300 pints of beer, quarrel, laugh and sing as they tell each other tall tales, recount the legends of the downs, speak of their first loves and meet some remarkable characters as their adventure unfolds.
The Four Men has been newly adapted for the stage by Sussex playwright Ann Feloy from Belloc’s book of the same name. Originally created by Ann as a short, single-act piece which was nominated as one of the top ten plays at the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2010, the new two-act extended version has been re-written to include more of Belloc’s original text.
Performances include at the Phoenix Theatre, Bordon, on October 13 and at the Spring Arts Centre, Havant, on October 19.