The Welkin
by Lucy Kirkwood
Past event
Rural Suffolk, 1759. As the countryside 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...
Content warning: Contains bad language, scenes of violence and themes of child death and miscarriage.
Cast
- Elizabeth - Steph Gunner-Lucas
- Sally - Poppy Price
- Hannah - Becca Douglas
- Judith - Chris Moran
- Charlotte - Ali Howarth
- Mary/Lady Wax - Laura Barns
- Peg - Megan Turnell-Willett
- Helen - Emma Sterry
- Emma - Elizabeth Paulo
- Kitty - Steph Clark
- Sarah Smith - Liz Carroll
- Ann - Kate Shaw
- Sarah Hollis - Ali Carroll
- Mr Coombes/Justice - Tom Ripper
- Fred/Dr Willis - Chris Gunner-Lucas
- Katy & Alice Wax - Callie Wenham & Niamh McConalogue
Directed by Steph Dewar