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The Welkin

By Lucy Kirkwood
Directed by Weyni Mengesha
A Soulpepper, The Howland Company, and Crow’s Theatre Co-Production

September 4 - October 5
Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes (with intermission)
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Schedule

Thursday
Sep 04, 2025
Friday
Sep 05, 2025
Saturday
Sep 06, 2025
Tuesday
Sep 09, 2025
Wednesday
Sep 10, 2025
Thursday
Sep 11, 2025
7:30pm
Sold Out
Friday
Sep 12, 2025
Saturday
Sep 13, 2025
Sunday
Sep 14, 2025
Tuesday
Sep 16, 2025
Wednesday
Sep 17, 2025
Thursday
Sep 18, 2025
Friday
Sep 19, 2025
Saturday
Sep 20, 2025
Sunday
Sep 21, 2025
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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.

CANADIAN PREMIERE


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

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

Ungoverned, furious, layered…sheer gutsy audacity

- The Evening Standard

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