Hidden Stories

We are often fed a certain narrative by the media which comes to be the one that everyone accepts, but there is always a great deal we don’t know. These two plays looks at the “hidden stories” of two women who were tried and executed for murder. In the case of Edith Thompson at the time there was a moral panic after the First World War. Edith Thompson was seen as immoral and calculating.  A married women who worked, didn’t keep house and  took a much young lover.  Ruth Ellis was also seen as a sexual predator, a night club hostess who neglected her duties as a mother. The plays asks us to think about ingrained misogyny in the justice system.  Both cases are now seen as major miscarriages of justice, but are women still judged more harshly than men?

Rated PG-14

Friday April 21st, 7.30pm
Adults: £16    Under 16s: £10