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The Welkin

By Lucy Kirkwood
Directed by Weyni Mengesha
A Soulpepper, The Howland Company, and Crow’s Theatre Co-Production

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September 4 - October 5

Run Time: Approximately 2 hours and 30 minutes (with intermission) 

Technical Warning: THE WELKIN uses haze and fire. 
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The Welkin

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 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.

CONTENT WARNING: THE WELKIN contains scenes of violence and mature content, including domestic abuse and miscarriage, descriptions of hanging and sexual assault, child death, and strong language.

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Photo of (from Left to Right): Raquel Duffy, Amaka Umeh, Courtney Ch’ng Lancaster, Mayko Nguyen, Ruth Goodwin, Hallie Seline, and Brefny Caribou. Photo by Dahlia Katz 

Critic's Pick 

- New York Times

Ungoverned, furious, layered…sheer gutsy audacity

- The Evening Standard

The Welkin is all muscle — taut and intense, energized not only by its moral indignation but by its sense of humor, and by the specific humanity of each of its large cast of characters.

- Vulture

✭✭✭✭✭/5 

- Glenn Sumi

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