UK PREMIERE OF COMPELLING PLAY APPLES IN WINTER NEWS


UK PREMIERE OF COMPELLING PLAY APPLES IN WINTER

The UK premiere of the play Apples In Winter beautifully gives voice to the hidden victims of crime. Miriam’s son has been on death row for 22 years. Today the state will execute him. As is the tradition, he is granted a last meal. He asks for his mother’s apple pie. In this compelling and compassionate play Miriam shows us how to make the perfect pie as she grapples with what happened 22 years ago. The Playground Theatre, London W10. 5-15 October. Post-show discussions tickets- theplaygroundtheatre.london/events/apples-in-winter



Surrey-based professional theatre company LynchPin Productions is thrilled to announce it will be staging the European premiere of the award-winning play Apples in Winter by Jennifer Fawcett at The Playground Theatre, London, from 5-15 October 2022.

The one-woman play centres on an American mother Miriam whose son committed an exceptionally violent crime. He has been on death row for 22 years. In a few hours the state will execute him. He is permitted the ritual of choosing a last meal: he asks for his mothers apple pie. As Miriam shows the audience how to make the perfect pie, they watch her attempt to understand what happened to her son and how everything changed that night 22 years ago.

The convicted do not serve their sentence alone: their family also has to bear it. And where the sentence is the ultimate one the death penalty the families of the executed are little considered. This play provides a rare opportunity to hear an often silenced and ostracised voice: that of the mother of a perpetrator.

Apples in Winter is an extraordinarily powerful and yet deeply compassionate play that challenges the audience to reflect on the impact of violent crime on its hidden victims. It journeys into the heart of difficult and charged questions about justice, forgiveness and what it is to try and love unconditionally.

The performance is augmented by the actor preparing and baking an apple pie on stage as the story unfolds. Miriam is played by Edie Campbell and the production is directed by Claire Parker.

Apples in Winter is the winner of the National New Play Network Smith Prize for Political Theatre and the Susan Glaspell Award. US-based Canadian author Jennifer Fawcett says: I could not be more thrilled that LynchPin Theatre is producing this play in England.

A key feature of LynchPins production is the programme of after-show discussions to explore the plays themes which will feature contributions from criminal justice practitioners, those involved in human rights and restorative justice, and individuals with lived experience of the criminal justice system. The 20th World Day Against the Death Penalty falls on 10 October.

Apples in Winter runs at The Playground Theatre, Latimer Road, London W10 6RQ from 5-15 October 2022 (no Sunday performance). 7:30pm

tickets- theplaygroundtheatre.london/events/apples-in-winter

About the author
LynchPin Productions is professional theatre company mounting small-medium scale theatre. Founded in 1999 by director Jack Lynch and actor Edie Campbell it creates compelling theatre through biography, rehearsed readings and productions, with a particular focus on expressing seldom-heard voices.



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