Dr. Larch (Crook) reads Dickens to the orphans at St. Cloud’s in The Cider House Rules. Photo courtesy Adam Smith.
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Dr. Larch (Crook) reads Dickens to the orphans at St. Cloud’s in The Cider House Rules. Photo courtesy Adam Smith.
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Homer (Toms, left) grows wary of the good doctor’s practice in The Cider House Rules. Photo courtesy Adam Smith.
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Homer (Toms, left) grows wary of the good doctor’s practice in The Cider House Rules. Photo courtesy Adam Smith.
In the mid-’90s, the Book-it Repertory style made a grand entrance into the local theater scene with a Seattle Rep-produced play: a low-tech, faithful adaptation of John Irving’s novel The Cider House Rules. It starred Ethan Hawke as young Homer Wells—a never-adopted lost boy raised in a Maine orphanage, living and learning under the tutelage of the doctor…
