🎭 Come along to our next reading: THE WELKIN by Lucy Kirkwood
🗓️Key Dates:
Reading – Sun 4 Jan 2026, 6.00 pm - Foyer
Auditions – Sun 11 Jan 2026, 6.00 pm - Coward/Yardley
Performances: Tuesday 27 April - Saturday 2 May 2026
🎭About the play:
Rural Suffolk, 1759. As Halley’s Comet blazes across the sky, a young woman is sentenced to hang for a shocking crime. But when she claims to be pregnant, a jury of twelve women is gathered to decide her fate. Locked in a room and charged with determining the truth, they must confront not only the case at hand, but the roles they’ve been forced to play in a man’s world.
From the Olivier Award-winning writer of Chimerica, The Children and NSFW, The Welkin is a fierce, darkly funny, and defiantly feminist courtroom drama that crackles with urgency. It’s a visceral exploration of power, belief, and the price of solidarity in a society where justice is anything but blind.
ℹ️ More information:
https://www.hamptonhilltheatre.org.uk/production/welkin
Play readings are not just for prospective actors, but for anyone who would like to join in reading the play – or just listen to it being read. The readings are informal social occasions when the bar is open - we enjoy meeting new people and welcoming them to our club. There is no obligation to audition for the play or even to read – and there’s no need to book, just turn up!
Also check out other Arts events in Hampton, Theatre events in Hampton, Performances in Hampton.
