Inspired by the statement "Well-behaved women seldom make history", the plays followed on from the Swan Theatre's Roaring Girls season.

The Ant and the Cicada by Timberlake Wertenbaker

A mysterious investor has set his sights on a prime piece of Greek real estate. Owned by two sisters whose lives and beliefs are at odds, and with debts rising all the time, the property's future is uncertain. In a Greek tragedy, everybody loses.

Through the struggle between two very different sisters for control of their family home, Wertenbaker's new play explores why we are willing to let the home of art and democracy crumble as the rest of Europe looks on.

Cast

Robert Boulter - Student | John Bowe - Alex | Scarlett Brookes - Student | Ruth Gemmell - Selina | Julie Legrand - Zoe | Mimi Ndiweni - Irina

Creatives

Director - Erica Whyman | Designer - Madeleine Girling | Lighting - Claire Gerrens

Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again. by Alice Birch

You are expected to behave...

        Use the right words

                Act appropriately

                        Don't break the rules

                                Just behave

This play is not well behaved.

Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century and asks what's stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them.

Cast

Robert Boulter | Scarlett Brookes | Ruth Gemmell | Mimi Ndiweni

Creatives

Director - Erica Whyman | Designer - Madeleine Girling | Lighting - Claire Gerrens

I Can Hear You by EV Crowe

Tommy is dead. It's always tragic when they die young.

People have posted loads of nice stuff on his Facebook page and his family want to get his funeral just right.

Proper cutlery and a good spread. The send-off he deserved, and certainly better than they managed when mum died. It should be the perfect way to say goodbye. Unfortunately not everyone is willing to let go.

The following Sunday in the family house, the football is unceremoniously interrupted as the doorbell rings and in walks a still-very-much-dead Tommy.

Crowe's play questions what happens when you take loved ones for granted and counsels that some things are better left unsaid.

Cast

Robert Boulter - Tommy | John Bowe - David | Scarlett Brookes - Ellie | Ruth Gemmell - Ruth | Mimi Ndiwemi - Sandra

Creatives

Director - Jo McInnes | Designer - Max Dorey | Lighting - Robin Griggs

This is Not an Exit by Abi Zakarian

You wake up tied to a radiator.

You can't remember what you signed that keeps you here. Did you read the small print? Does anyone read the small print?

Your hands are bound and there is a bag over your head. Your prison companion is familiar and yet a total mystery. Your jailers fluctuate between mild torture and care.

You know you should fight but don't know how or against whom.

In Abi Zakarian's new play, four women find themselves locked in struggle but paralysed by their own inaction as the inexorable and fatal cocktail hour draws near.

Cast

Scarlett Brookes - Gulch | Ruth Gemmell - Nora | Julie Legrand - Blanche | Mimi Ndiweni - Ripley

Creatives

Director - Jo McInnes | Designer - Max Dorey | Lighting - Robin Griggs