This isTo commemorate 50 years since the death of R C Sherriff, Claire Evans in association with the R C Sherriff Trust will be presenting a professional production of R C Sherriff’s mystery drama Home at Seven. The show will visit the Barn Theatre, West Molesey on Monday 29 September 2025.

Tickets for this performance details of other venues are available via the Vera Fletcher Hall website
www.verafletcherhall.co.uk.

It sometimes happens that an innocent man needs more protection than a guilty one.

It’s one of those things that might happen to anybody.

This production is the first professional London revival of Home at Seven since the West End premiere in 1950, which starred Ralph Richardson. It is being presented by Claire Evans, in association with the R C Sherriff Trust, marking the 50th anniversary of the death of its writer R C Sherriff, best known for his World War I play, Journey’s End.

Home at Seven takes place five years after the end on the Second World War. The country is still recovering from years of bomb damage. Its people continue to endure rationing and are trying to restore normality after six years when everything had been turned on its head.

It’s the little lies, the white lies that catch us out. The lies we tell to defend and protect our innocence. We all break rules, we all tell inconsistent stories, but does this mean that we are more likely tobe guilty? David Preston is at the centre of this gripping mystery drama. An ordinary decent citizen, he is caught in a waking nightmare when he returns home from work to his wife to find that 24 hours have elapsed without him even realising it. It is now a day later than he thought. As hard as he tries, he cannot recall the events of the missing day or explain away evidence that implicates him in theft and murder. paragraph text.