Produced and presented by The Cockpit
Part of Theatre Maker
NEW STUFF
Our monthly night of rehearsed readings. Join us for the opportunity to see exciting new work and engage in conversation with other writers, creatives, and theatre-goers.
Coming Up: Sunday 5 July - 5.30pm
PERDITA
by Sophie Todd
In a back room of Chawton House sits a painting of Mary Robinson. Born in 1757, she is one of the first examples of a tabloid celebrity. Married at 16, and put in prison due to her husband’s gambling debts, she played stages across London and bedded multiple members of high society, including Prince Regent George, The Earl of Essex, Colonel Banastre Tarrleton, the Duc de Lauzun, and Lord Lyttleton. Fashion icon, feminist writer, and supporter of the French Revolution, her ‘A Letter to the Women of England’ was considered a radical response to the anti-women rhetoric of the time, urging women that they ‘are not the mere appendages of Domestic Life, but the partners and equal associates of man’. She died at the age of 40, after spending her final years paralysed. Whilst her contemporaries (Garrick, Sheridan, Coleridge) have theatres named after them or are studied in school, Robinson has been largely forgotten, her political speeches taken by men, and her identity reduced to who she had affairs with. This is a real story lost to time.
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More details soon!
Tickets are £3 with an optional donation at checkout.
New Stuff finishes at approximately 7.45pm, but we welcome all to join us for continued conversations in the bar downstairs.
Tickets are strictly limited, so booking in advance is highly recommended. Please note that the event takes place in one of our studio spaces, which is only accessible up a spiral staircase.
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If you’re a writer, director, producer or Theatre Maker and have a piece of new writing you’d like to put in front of an audience, this is the place for it!
For further information about New Stuff, please visit our More Information For Applicants page or email our New Stuff producer involved
thecockpit.org.uk (Michael).
We cannot guarantee that readings will be suitable for all age groups. If you have any questions about the content of our New Stuff evenings, please contact Michael Powell-Davies at involvedthecockpit.org.uk.
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