Surrey professional theatre company LynchPin brings their London production of the compelling and award-winning play Apples in Winter to Guildford’s Mill Studio on 28 September.
This follows their successful production and its European premiere last year.
The one-woman play features an American mother – Miriam – whose son committed a 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 and asks for his mother’s 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 one night 22 years ago.
The convicted do not serve their sentence alone, their family also has to bear it.
Apples in Winter by Jennifer Fawcett provides a rare opportunity to hear an often silenced voice: that of the mother of a perpetrator.
The performance is augmented by the actor preparing and baking an apple pie on stage as the story unfolds.
Actor Edie Campbell plays the mother in a performance that was a finalist in this year’s OFFIE Awards for Best Solo Performance, in a production directed by Claire Parker.
Reviews for LynchPin’s production of Apples in Winter
‘A beautifully written single-hander and Campbell gives an astonishing performance… Directed brilliantly by Claire Parker, the production makes powerful use of silence…’ The Family Stage
‘Jennifer Fawcett’s play is hard-hitting enough, but in the right hands it becomes absolutely devastating – and it’s hard to imagine hands more right than those of actor Edie Campbell.’ Theatre Things
28 September at 7:45pm at Mill Studio, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford GU1 3UX
Tickets: phone 01483 440000 or visit their website.
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