************************* All is not lost when wrinkles set in and bones begin to creak. Love conquers all – including old age! Noëlle Châtelet’s heart-warming one-woman show, The Colour of Poppies, shows that you are never too old for the heart-rending emotions of a romance. The critically acclaimed play runs in the Studio from 25-27 April. Award-winning TV and Theatre actress, Faith Brook, portrays Martha: seventy-five, living alone, and her children long since grown up…and for the first time in her life, she is in love. Through an attachment with a gentle, gallant, gentleman named Felix, whom she fondly nicknames Monsieur des Cravates because of his fondness for that colourful item of attire, Martha finds love and sensuality and is transformed from a tired old lady in grey into a vibrant woman in a dress the colour of poppies. Her desires, anxieties and jealously show the impact of love at any age. The play is directed by Richard Digby Day with Michael Winter and adapted by Yann Le Gouic de Kervéno from the novel La Femme Coquelicot by Noëlle Châtelet and translated by John CQ Roberts. This remarkable novel, with it’s poetic treatment of the taboo subjects of love and sensuality in old age, created a sensation when it was first published. Yann Le Gouic de Kervéno's delicate adaptation received ecstatic reviews when it opened in London's Jermyn Street Theatre in summer 2004. York-born Faith Brook comes from a family of actors. Her family soon moved to Hollywood where she spent her childhood. At the age of 18, she returned to England and attended RADA. Her stage credits include Hamlet at Cambridge Theatre London with Sir Ian McKellen, Mornings at Seven at the Westminster Theatre, The Old Country at Queen’s Theatre with Alec Guinness, The Women at the Old Vic, El Cid at the National Theatre, Coriolanus at the Mermaid Theatre with Steven Berkoff, and Good at the Donmar Warehouse with Charles Dance, for which she received the Clarence Derwent Award for Best Supporting Actress. Her films have included The Eye of the Needle, North Sea Hijack and television appearances in War and Peace, The Irish RM and Miss Marple. "A masterly performance, perfectly pitched." Financial Times Tickets for The Colour of Poppies are priced at £10.00 (Tickets for Under 25s and Students are £5.00) and can be purchased at the York Theatre Royal Box Office or by calling 01904 623568. Tickets are also available online at www.yorktheatreroyal.co.uk **************************