July 19 at 10am | July 20 at 1pm
National Theatre Live
by Lucy Kirkwood
One life in the hands of 12 women.
Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 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.
The Welkin is an unpredictable, gritty, thriller. James Macdonald (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) directs Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, Funny Cow) and Ria Zmitrowicz (Three Girls, Mr. Selfridge) in bold story packed with tension and dark humor, told in a striking, contemporary way. from Tony Award-nominated writer Lucy Kirkwood (Chimerica, Skins).
Press Reviews:
★★★★★ ‘Witty and dazzling. A thing of beauty’ The Upcoming
★★★★ ‘A mighty new play. Magnificent.’ Financial Times
★★★★ ‘Very funny, brutally honest and smartly irreverent.’ Broadway World
★★★★ ‘Ambitious, gripping and richly textured.’ The Stage
★★★★ ‘Brilliant, brave and bold.’ WhatsOnStage
Rural Suffolk in England, 1759. As the country waits for Halley’s comet, a young woman is sentenced to hang for a heinous murder. When she claims to be pregnant, a jury of 12 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.
The Welkin is an unpredictable, gritty, thriller. James Macdonald (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) directs Maxine Peake (The Theory of Everything, Funny Cow) and Ria Zmitrowicz (Three Girls, Mr. Selfridge) in bold story packed with tension and dark humor, told in a striking, contemporary way. from Tony Award-nominated writer Lucy Kirkwood (Chimerica, Skins).
Press Reviews:
★★★★★ ‘Witty and dazzling. A thing of beauty’ The Upcoming
★★★★ ‘A mighty new play. Magnificent.’ Financial Times
★★★★ ‘Very funny, brutally honest and smartly irreverent.’ Broadway World
★★★★ ‘Ambitious, gripping and richly textured.’ The Stage
★★★★ ‘Brilliant, brave and bold.’ WhatsOnStage
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