There are still a few more days to see Silksoundbooks star audio book reader Oliver Cotton in the highly acclaimed stage production of The Grapes of Wrath at the Chichester Festival Theatre.

The Grapes of Wrath, written by Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck was first published as a novel in 1939 and is a cry for equality and humanity and a hymn to the fortitude of man.

The Joads, a family of impoverished sharecroppers from Oklahoma, lose everything when their farm is repossessed after a devastating drought and are driven from their home to make the exhausting Westward trek to California. Seduced by the prospect of opportunity and dignity, they invest everything they have in the journey. When forced to face the possibility that California may not after all be the promised land, they have no choice but to go on as nothing is left for them in Oklahoma.

Oliver Cotton has worked extensively at the RSC and the National theatre and his credits include The Royal Hunt of the Sun, Piano Forte and more recently, The Clean House. His film and television work is equally extensive, including roles in the BBC’s David Copperfield , Peter Hall’s The Camomile Lawn, and John Malkovich’s The Dancer Upstairs.

Oliver is no stranger to epic storytelling and his exclusive Silksoundbooks audio book of the classic Thomas Hardy novel The Return of the Native is perfectly suited to his rich and sonorous voice.