A Southern Gothic mystery by Tennessee Williams

New Orleans, 1937.

Last summer, Sebastian Venable died and everything changed. Now, Mrs Venable begins a brutal battle for the truth of her son’s death, with Catherine, Sebastian’s cousin.

Catherine was on holiday with Sebastian when he died and her story is so shocking that it must be silenced before it destroys the family. She has been placed into a mental institution to help her recover from her apparent madness – but Catherine refuses to remain silent. In the garden of Mrs Venable’s mansion, she summons a young doctor who is in need of investment for his experimental brain surgeries. Mrs Venable offers the doctor a source of funding – and the potential perfect patient in the form of Catherine. The stage is set for a devastating encounter between two women who have everything to lose, as they fight over the truth of Sebastian’s death – and for their own survival.

Creative & Technical Team:

Director: Josh Seymour

Set & Costume Designer: Eleanor Bull

Lighting Designers: Jamie Platt and Lucia Sánchez Roldán

Sound Designer & Composer: Lex Kosanke

Movement Director: Emily Terndrup

Associate Director: Karoline Gable

Dialect Coaches: Michaela Kennen and Adam Rhys-Charles

Casting Director: Marc Frankum

Technical Director: Oded Huberman

Stage Managers: Leanne Maksin, Gemma Brady, May Curtiss, Elke Hermann and Sina Tittel

Lighting Technician: Philipp Zier

Sound Technicians: Maximilian Borschel, Albert Mihaiteanu and David Sidnev

Costume Supervisor: Mirta Kljajo

Prop Maker: Dirk Conrad

Cast:

George Holly: Daniel Bravo

Sister Felicity, Miss Foxhill: Flora Dawson

Mrs Holly: Gretchen Egolf

Dr Cukrowicz: Jared Garfield

Catharine Holly: Katie Matsell

Mrs Venable: Kathryn Pogson