WOMANS (LIKE ROMANS, BUT WITH A ‘W’)
A theatre show celebrating one of history’s untold tales with physical theatre, live music & comedy.
It’s 44BC, Ancient Rome. Our hero, Leta, has been declared a traitor by the Roman Senate. She is given a punishment worse than death – Damnatio Memoriae – to be erased from history. Whilst noble Gladiators and infamous Emperors around her are becoming legends, her name will be scratched out and forgotten forever. But with the help from some mischievous Muses, she decides to rebel against the Republic.
Follow Leta’s determined journey to reclaim her place in the history books, from crashing the Colosseum to freeing the slaves, she will go to the ends of the empire to make her mark.
A feast for the eyes and the ears with physical comedy, clowning and original music, WOMANS is a raucous & hilarious tale of the first female resistance.
Cast
Annabella/Leta - Alice Higginson-Clarke
Polyhymnea - Sian Keen
Melpomene - Laura Doble
Music written & created by the company with Hanora Kamen
Dramaturgy by David Lane
WOMANS was created with support from Beaford, Barbican Theatre Plymouth & Arts Council England.
Reviews
"Highly imaginative...a genuinely funny & clever show”
★★★★ A Younger Theatre
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"Highly entertaining...riotous fun!"
★★★★ Fringe Guru
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“This is devised theatre at its best and the whole show is an absolute hoot from beginning to end.”
★★★★ StageTalk Magazine
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“This likeable show is performed with zest”
Lyn Gardner
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“A frenzied feminist fiction told through a whirlwind of tightly choreographed theatrical invention”
The Stage
