PREVIEW: Hilda and Virginia by Maureen Duffy

The Scandal Season: Hilda and Virginia by Maureen Duffy; a world premiere directed by Natasha Rickman, starring Sarah Crowden.

“No one is ever truthful. Everyone shifts, makes shift, is shifty and shiftless together, is a chameleon and a shape-changer.”

Maureen Duffy’s double-bill tells the story of two remarkable women.

The Choice is the story of a very unsaintly saint. Hilda of Whitby, who brought Christianity to the Anglo-Saxons, was a businesswoman, teacher and adviser to kings.

In A Nightingale in Bloomsbury Square, Virginia Woolf looks back on her life, uncovering the hidden stories behind her iconic novels. From the torture of depression to the scandal of her lesbian affairs, Virginia goes down fighting.

As the saying goes: well-behaved women don’t make history…

Playwright, poet, novelist, biographer, Maureen Duffy burst onto the British theatre scene with her National Theatre debut in 1968, Rites.

Duffy’s work since includes the hugely influential The Microcosm, and the Londoners trilogy has enshrined her as one of our most important contemporary writers.

Sarah Crowden is known for her appearances in Dustin Hoffman’s Quartet and as Lady Manville in Downton Abbey.

Natasha Rickman is Artistic Associate at Jermyn Street Theatre and the co-founder and Director of Women at RADA.

Event: Hilda and Virginia by Maureen Duffy

Where: Jeremy Street Theatre, 16b Jermyn Street, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6ST

When: Tuesday, February 27 – Saturday, March 3

Time: Evenings 7.30pm, Matinees (Thursdays and Saturdays) 3.30pm

Cost: Tickets from £10

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