![]() The Cement Garden received its world premiere as part of Vault Festival Waterloo, on 28 January 2014. ![]() David Aula and Jimmy Osborne's stage adaptation approaches the horror of the story through the innocent eyes of children, and encourages an audience to remember the games, irreverence, and shadows of their youth: to remember and reinvent their sense of invincibility. Ian McEwan's first novel, The Cement Garden, written in 1978, explores coming-of-age, burgeoning sexuality and the distortions of a fourteen-year-old mind. I am only including the little story of his death to explain how my sisters and I came to have such a large quantity of cement at our disposal.” In the relentless summer heat, four children retreat into an isolated world left to them by their parents and attempt to create their own version of a family. Ian McEwan’s Enchanted Garden In the hills of southwest England, the writer and his wife, the novelist Annalena McAfee, have surrounded their home with untamed delight. And but for the fact that it coincided with a landmark in my own physical growth, his death seemed insignificant compared with what followed. The Cement Garden by Ian McEwan is a shockingly dark, morbid yet brilliant novel depicting the lives of four siblings left to care for one another when their. ![]() ![]() “I did not kill my father, but sometimes I felt I had helped him on his way. ![]()
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