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
Production Installation: September 11 – October 5
Production Installation
Throughout its run, audiences are invited to visit an installation in the atrium displaying remnants from the creative process of developing The Welkin. Explore hands-on the dramaturgical research, scenic paint experimentation and other fragments from carpentry, wardrobe and props in the making of the production.
September 11 – October 5
Located in the Atrium
Talkback: September 24
Wednesday September 24, 4:15pm (following the matinee performance)
Happening in The Atrium
Movie Night: September 24 @ 7pm
The film Eileen is screening in conjunction with The Welkin. Both stories, on screen and stage, center on women seeking agency and escape in repressive patriarchal societies. On different continents and in different centuries, these women contend with violence and inhibited desires within the limited roles they are afforded in stifling communities and male-dominated legal systems. Questions about justice and morality are provoked in the fallouts from the arrival of a stranger who arouses a new way of viewing their circumstances.
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September 24 @ 7pm
Happening in The Cabaret
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
Critic's Pick
- New York Times
Ungoverned, furious, layered…sheer gutsy audacity
- The Evening Standard
The Welkin is all muscle — taut and intense, energized not only by its moral indignation but by its sense of humor, and by the specific humanity of each of its large cast of characters.
- Vulture
✭✭✭✭✭/5
- Glenn Sumi
The Welkin Production Trailer
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