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Apples in Winter
Surrey-based LynchPin Theatre celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2024 and brings an award-winning play to Hemel Hempstead.
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. 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.
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
‘Director Claire Parker lets these words breathe, punctuating the production with moments of silence that give Miriam time alone with her thoughts, and the audience a chance to digest and process what we’ve heard.’ Theatre Things
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. 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.
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
‘Director Claire Parker lets these words breathe, punctuating the production with moments of silence that give Miriam time alone with her thoughts, and the audience a chance to digest and process what we’ve heard.’ Theatre Things
8:00pm £16
Old Town Hall, High Street, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire HP1 3AE
Fri 8 March