Description

SwanWing Productions' new play Battle describes itself as a modern mystery play, and takes the audience on an intricately-plotted historical journey from 1066 to the present day: exploring how women just gather up their skirts and carry on as the men around them love? fight? die.

Written by Saskia Wesnigk, the imaginative script has shades of Mother Courage, a whiff of Christopher Fry and a hearty, dollopy nod to Euripides. It shuttles forwards and backwards again from the French invasion of England, when William the Bastard so unceremoniously walloped Harold II with an arrow and snatched the infant country of England for himself. But they are just the first pair of toxic Williams and Harrys we are invited to explore: there are the medieval men from York, building their wagons and a modern re-enactment soldier as well as the currently warring Cambridges and Sussexes are all encompassed in a piece which largely bypasses the more well-known antics of men and focuses instead on the women left to clean-up, cope and chorus about the chaos unfolding around them. (From the 4 star review by Broadway Baby, Edinburgh Fringe August 2022).
The venue is an upstairs pub theatre and has no wheelchair access.

Description

7 Rock Street,

Kemp Town,

Brighton,

East Sussex,

England,

BN2 1NF.