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Tituba

Tituba by Winsome Pinnock is a one-woman show about Tituba Indian, the enslaved woman who played a central role in the seventeenth-century Salem Witch Trials.

Echoes

A bloody tale of colonialism – ancient and modern – and the rhyme of history. Part of the Arabian Nightmares trilogy.

The Importance of Being Alfred

A short play about Lord Alfred Douglas, the former lover of Oscar Wilde, and his latter years as the supporter of a prominent homophobe.

The Lioness

A short play about Elizabeth I: the myth and the reality.

The Milliner and the Weaver

A short play about the Suffragette movement in Ireland, as the question of Home Rule divides the nation.

Bloody Wimmin

A short play about the protests at Greenham Common, a political landmark in the fight for nuclear disarmament.

Handbagged (one-act version)

A short play about the working relationship between Mrs Thatcher and the Queen.

Night of the Assassins

Three siblings plot to kill their parents in this controversial masterpiece from a major Cuban poet and playwright.

Other Worlds

A gorilla is taken for a French spy by an eighteenth-century fishing community on the isolated North Yorkshire coast, in a play that explores fears of the unknown.

Today

From a Cambridge college to the battlefields of the Spanish Civil War, Today is a panoramic study of life, desire and the search for a fundamental self in the midst of a shifting, uncertain world.

Five Years with the White Man

A startling play about satirist ABC Merriman-Labor, the greatest Black Briton ever to have been forgotten.

Wild Notes

A play exploring the impact of colonialism through a meeting between Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave and abolitionist who visited Ireland in the 1840s, and a young Irishwoman hoping to emigrate to the country he's running from.

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Amanda Whittington

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13–18 May 2024
Wharf Theatre, Devizes