Maryland

25th November at 7:30pm

Originally performed at the Royal Court Theatre in the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs.

Commenting on the play playwright Lucy Kirkwood says;

"This play was for many years a private conversation with myself. The horrific murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa this year have galvanised me into making it public. I hesitate to even call it a play when it is simply a howl, a way of expressing what I feel about a culture of violence against women, but I am sharing it because I wonder if it might express a little of what other people feel about it too. It was written very quickly, and I am grateful to the Royal Court for snatching up a gauntlet thrown down last Friday night with such energy, care and seriousness."

"We all live in the same world, hear the same news, share the same existential fears and longings. Some people specialise in tending to our health, and some people tend to our roads and buildings, and some people tend to the food we eat and some people teach us to read and write and some people move important things from a to b. And then there are some other people who sit in the same world as us but with their pattern of words and ideas show that world back to us in a way which momentarily stops us feeling so alone, so fearful, so lost. There is order. There is hope. This is what this tiny enormous play does. This is what art is for." – Vicky Featherstone

Dutch Courage will be putting on a script-in-hand performance of Lucy Kirkwood's new play Maryland.

Proceeds shall go to Rape Crisis England and Wales as supported by the original production from the Royal Court.

Rape Crisis England & Wales is the umbrella organisation of a network of independent Rape Crisis Centres who provide a range of specialist services for women and girls that have been raped or experienced any form of sexual violence - whether as adults or as children.

7:30pm - 8:00pm