Machinal by Sophie Treadwell at Southbank Theatre Company

In a mechanized world that suffocates the soul, one woman fights for freedom at any cost. A modern Everywoman, Helen works in a boring office, marries her boss who offers her financial security, finds motherhood oppressive, and has a lover who abandons her. Machinal presents the life of a young woman who asks an impersonal society, “Is nothing mine?”