Clap Trap Theatre
PENNYROYAL by Lucy Roslyn
“I think of my body sometimes like it’s stubborn. We’re not good friends. Like it’s a spooky hotel, and I’m just a ghost haunting it. ’Cause you don’t live in a hotel, you just pass through.”
A heartrending play about sisterhood and motherhood; enduring love and regrets many years in the making.
When Daphne is diagnosed with Premature Ovarian Insufficiency at 19, her sister Christine steps in to help in the only way she knows how: by donating her eggs. For a moment, the world seems corrected. But as the years go by and Daphne sets out on the long road of IVF, the sisters’ relationship begins to twist. Pennyroyal explores the things expected of women and what happens when life doesn’t go to plan.
Pennyroyal is inspired by Edith Wharton’s 1922 novella The Old Maid, which was adapted ten years later into a Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Zoe Akins. A hundred years on, the story is reimagined by Lucy Roslyn, with direction by Josh Roche.
Playwright Lucy Roslyn is an award-winning performer and writer. Her most recent work includes Orlando, a previous collaboration with Josh Roche and Jessie Anand Productions, which won the Origins Award at VAULT Festival before transferring to the Pleasance Edinburgh. Other work includes Showmanship (Theatre503) and Goody (Pleasance Edinburgh and Greenwich Theatre – Les Enfants Terribles’ Greenwich Partnership Award 2017). Her critically acclaimed debut The State vs. John Hayes started life at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, before touring to Theatre Royal Bath, The Lowry, the King’s Head Theatre and OSH Brooklyn.
CastChristine: Natasha JonesDaphne: Florrie StockbridgeRunning time: Approx 80mins tbc
This performance contains strong language and discussion of infertility and domestic violence.
Age recommendation: 12yrs+
Presented by arrangement with Nick Hern Books Ltd.
Presented by Claptrap Theatre
