The Welkin
Cast: 13-16f 2-4m
Staging: Several locations (mostly 18th-century interiors)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
16 Jan 2020Size: 198mm x 129mm
16 Jan 2020Size: 297mm x 210mm
16 Jan 2020
The Welkin
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Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the country waits for Halley's Comet, Sally Poppy is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve matrons are taken from their housework to decide whether she's telling the truth, or simply trying to escape the noose.
With only midwife Lizzy Luke prepared to defend the girl, and a mob baying for blood outside, the matrons wrestle with their new authority, and the devil in their midst.
Lucy Kirkwood's play The Welkin premiered at the National Theatre, London, in January 2020, directed by James Macdonald and featuring Maxine Peake and Ria Zmitrowicz.
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'A superb new history play - a feminist courtroom drama that's equal parts Twelve Angry Men, The Crucible and The Vagina Monologues, plus a dash of searing, up-to-the-minute political and social commentary... a warm, humane and very funny piece, firmly anchored in women's everyday experience'
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Financial Times'Dazzles with its examination of the big, immovable structures that inflict violence on women... there is so much richness in its visual imagination'
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Evening StandardCast: 13-16f 2-4m
Staging:Several locations (mostly 18th-century interiors)
Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)
16 Jan 2020Size: 198mm x 129mm
16 Jan 2020Size: 297mm x 210mm
16 Jan 2020
