A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity
By Douglas Maxwell
Directed by Orla O'Loughlin
With Joanna Tope and Gavin Jon Wright
Mourning her husband's death, Annabelle strikes up an unlikely relationship with his potty-mouthed employee, Jim. As she enters into Jim's un-finishing school, Annabelle finally finds her own voice and gets herself heard. This riotous explosion of expletives addresses how we express and process our grief.
Clean
By Sabrina Mahfouz
Directed by Orla O'Loughlin
With Emma Dennis-Edwards, Jade Anouka, and Chloe Massey
Welcome to the world of London's top female underground criminals on their biggest job yet, an international heist. Zainab, Chloe and Katya are three fast-talking, no-nonsense criminal heroines who mean business. Clean, by poet and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz, is razor-sharp and effortlessly slick.
Established in 1963 to maintain the spirit of the Edinburgh Fringe Festival throughout the year, the Traverse works with exciting new theatre-makers, presents daring new plays and nurtures ground-breaking new talent. The company tours work throughout the world and has toured extensively around Scotland and other parts of the UK and Ireland. In recent years, we have taken new plays to Australia, America, Istanbul, France, Toronto, Moscow, Iran and Jordan.
The Traverse is very much a writer’s theatre, having launched the career of Scotland’s most celebrated writers – John Byrne, David Greig, David Harrower, Liz Lochhead and Zinnie Harris. The company is committed to finding the next generation of Scottish playwriting talent and continuously engage with new emerging voices through our writing and engagement programmes.
The Traverse is unique in Scotland in that it fulfils the crucial role of providing the infrastructure, professional support and expertise to ensure the development of a dynamic and vital theatre culture for Scotland. It is proud to continue in the spirit of innovation and risk taking that first sparked it emergence and continues to engage with all sectors of society to increase access to the arts and promote lifelong learning.
As we look to the future our ambition is to build on this extraordinary legacy; to invest in increased engagement with artists and audiences alike and to continue to develop, produce and present world class drama for a national and international stage.
"Dennis-Edwards, Massey, and Anouka bring marvelous energy to the piece!" - TheaterMania
"Evocative! Rigorously crisp!" - Theater Pizzazz
"Beautifully performed - brilliant piece of stage poetry!" - The Scotsman (UK)
"Flawless. Sizzles from the start!" - Edinburgh Fringe Review, Outstanding Show Winner
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