THE WELKIN by Lucy Kirkwood // Canadian Premiere Teaser Trailer

This season's must-see show takes the stage in Toronto September 4!

12 women. 1 verdict. A young woman’s life hangs in the balance, and every word, every argument could tip the scales.

Lucy Kirkwood’s THE WELKIN makes its highly anticipated Canadian Premiere beginning September 4 at Soulpepper Theatre. Secure your tickets today for this unforgettable theatrical experience.

Find out more & book now: https://tinyurl.com/42hrw52h

ABOUT THE PLAY:
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 UK playwright 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.

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A Howland Company, Soulpepper Theatre, and Crow’s Theatre Co-Production

THE WELKIN
Written by Lucy Kirkwood
Directed by Weyni Mengesha

THE CAST:
Mayko Nguyen as Lizzy Luke
Bahia Watson as Sally Poppy,
Olunike Adeliyi as Judith Brewer
Ghazal Azarbad as Peg Carter
Nadine Bhabha as Kitty Givens
Brefny Caribou as Mary Middleton
Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster as Emma Jenkins
Raquel Duffy as Sarah Hollis
Kyra Harper as Sarah Smith
Fiona Highet as Charlotte Cary
Cameron Laurie as Frederick Poppy/Mr. Willis
Craig Lauzon as Mr. Coombes
Annie Lujan as Hannah Rusted
Natasha Mumba as Ann Lavender
Liisa Repo-Martell as Lizzy Luke (Alternate, Sundays & Tuesdays)
Hallie Seline as Helen Ludlow
Addison Wagman as Katy Luke/Alice Wax

Set Designer: Julie Fox
Costume Designer: Michelle Tracy
Lighting Designer: Bonnie Beecher
Sound Designer & Arranger: Thomas Ryder Payne
Fight & Intimacy Director: Anita Nittoly
Dialect Coach: Jane Gooderham
Associate Director: Luke Reece
Howland Shadow Director: Sebastian Biasucci
Stage Manager: Sam Hale
Assistant Stage Manager: Scarlett Larry

Video by Hoffworks