Preshow conversation with director Weyni Mengesha and production dramaturg Joanna Falck diving into the research, themes and process of staging The Welkin.
September 5 @ 6:30pm
Happening in The Atrium
The Welkin
Rural England, 1759. Halley’s Comet burns in the sky, and a young woman is sentenced to hang. But when she tries to escape the noose by claiming to be pregnant, a jury of twelve women are gathered to decide whether she is telling the truth. As tensions rise, their task becomes a reckoning: with the law, with power, and with the roles they’re forced to play in a world that silences them.
Tony-Award Nominee Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin (Chimerica, The Children) is a bold and blistering courtroom drama—by turns darkly comic and quietly devastating—about justice, duty, and righteous dissent.
CONTENT WARNING: THE WELKIN contains scenes of violence and mature content, including domestic abuse and miscarriage, descriptions of hanging and sexual assault, child death, and strong language.
CANADIAN PREMIERE
ANCILLARY PROGRAMMING
Photo of (from Left to Right): Raquel Duffy, Amaka Umeh, Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster, Mayko Nguyen, Ruth Goodwin, Hallie Seline, and Brefny Caribou. Photo by Dahlia Katz
Mayko Nguyen
Lizzy
Bahia Watson
Sally
Olunike Adeliyi
Judith Brewer
GHAZAL AZARBAD
Peg Carter
NADINE BHABHA
Kitty Givens
BREFNY CARIBOU
Mary Middleton
COURTNEY CH'NG LANCASTER
Emma Jenkins
RAQUEL DUFFY
Sarah Hollis
Kyra Harper
Sarah Smith
Fiona Highet
Charlotte Cary
Cameron Laurie
Frederick Poppy / Mr. Willis
CRAIG LAUZON
Mr.Coombes
ANNIE LUJÁN
Hannah Rusted
Natasha Mumba
Ann Lavender
Liisa Repo-Martell
Lizzy Luke (Alternate)
Hallie Seline
Helen Ludlow
Addison Wagman
Katy Luke / Alice Wax
OLIVER DENNIS
The Justice (Voice)
WEYNI MENGESHA
Director
Lucy Kirkwood
Playwright
Julie Fox
Set Designer
Michelle Tracey
Costume Designer
BONNIE BEECHER
Lighting Designer
THOMAS RYDER PAYNE
Sound Designer & Arranger
Anita Nittoly
Fight & Intimacy Director
Jane Gooderham
Dialect Coach
Joanna Falck
Production Dramaturg
LUKE REECE
Associate Director
Sebastian Biasucci
Howland Shadow Director
SAM HALE
Stage Manager
Scarlett Larry
Assistant Stage Manager
Kate Chubbs
Apprentice Stage Manager
Alex Edwards
Child Supervisor
Partnership Supporters
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