Saints Drama Group present The Welkin
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The Saints – The Welkin by Lucy Kirkwood. Saints Drama Coventry in association with Second Chance Productions. Directed and Produced by Peter Daly-Dickson. At Allesley Village Hall, Coventry CV5 9GX from 19 – 23 May.
Preview
The year is 1759. A child has been murdered. The accused, 21-year-old Sally Poppy, must convince twelve matrons that she is pregnant to spare herself from the gallows.
But these women - midwives, shopkeepers, servants, a colonel’s widow - have their own secrets, their own grief, their own rage at the world that uses them and ignores them in equal measure.
Locked in a room together, they must decide: Will they save Sally? Can they trust her? And what power do they really hold when the verdict is already written by men?
Written by Lucy Kirkwood, 'The Welkin' premiered at the National Theatre in 2020 to critical acclaim and is theatre that crackles with dark wit and raw humanity - a 'beautiful, weird, horror' story about women judging women, about mercy and motherhood, housework and murder, and what happens when the powerless are suddenly given the power of life and death.
'The Welkin' is an ensemble piece with 13 remarkable female roles ranging from young to elderly, each one a fully-realised human being with her own voice, her own story, her own truth to tell.
Lizzie: “We are cold, hungry, tired, thirsty women and all of us’ve had our housework interrupted… It is a poor apparatus for justice. But it is what we have. This room. The sky outside that window and our own dignity beneath it.”
Tickets at £8 available from: https://www.ticketsource.com/saintsdramacoventry/the-welkin/e-ovbqaq
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