1536

Ambassadors Theatre

West St, West End, London WC2H 9ND, United Kingdom London

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Written by Ava Pickett, winner of the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, this “razor-sharp, darkly comic and blisteringly relevant” (Independent) new play explores the dynamics of female friendship in a world stacked against women.

Kings don’t kill their wives alright? It’s not – it just don’t happen. It doesn’t.

Tudor England.

A field in Essex.

Three women hurry to their childhood meeting place, thirsty for gossip from London.

Word spreads of a clash between King Henry VIII and his Queen, Anne Boleyn. And closer to home,

another rumour begins to catch fire.

As these women begin to see echoes of the royal drama in their own rural lives and a rise in violence spreads throughout the land, the actions of a queen imprisoned in a tower threaten to cost them everything.