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The Welkin
Paperback, 128 pages ISBN: 9781848429215Publication Date:
16 Jan 2020
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound, 256 pages ISBN: 9781839042072Publication Date:
16 Jan 2020
Size: 297mm x 210mm£16.99 £13.59You save £3.40 (20%)
Ebook, 128 pages ISBN: 9781788503105Publication Date:
16 Jan 2020
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
National Theatre, London, 2020

The Welkin

By Lucy Kirkwood

Paperback £10.99£8.79

A4 Spiral-bound £16.99£13.59

Ebook £10.99£8.79

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.


A4 Edition also available

This play is also available as an A4 Edition, offering spiral binding, a larger print size and additional space for notes. To order the play in this format, simply select the 'A4 Spiral-bound' option above. Please note A4 Editions are only available for delivery within the UK.

Press Quotes

'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'

Broadway World

'Brilliant, brave, bold and intelligent theatre. It is, for all the seriousness of its subject, often very funny yet at the close, profoundly moving'

WhatsOnStage

'A mighty play: magnificent in its scope, depth and intricacy... a wise, funny, richly intelligent and generously ambitious play that asks, as all good history plays do, how far have we really come?'

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'

Guardian

'Ungoverned, furious, larky, layered... sheer gutsy audacity'

Evening Standard
Paperback,128 pages ISBN: 9781848429215Publication Date:
16 Jan 2020
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound,256 pages ISBN: 9781839042072Publication Date:
16 Jan 2020
Size: 297mm x 210mm£16.99 £13.59You save £3.40 (20%)
Ebook,128 pages ISBN: 9781788503105Publication Date:
16 Jan 2020
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by Lucy Kirkwood:

Mosquitoes
Tinderbox
The Children
Bloody Wimmin
The Human Body
Beauty and the Beast
NSFW
it felt empty when the heart went at first but it is alright now
Rapture
Women, Power and Politics: Then
small hours
Lucy Kirkwood Plays: One
Hedda
Chimerica

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