THE STRAW CHAIR postponed at the Finborough Theatre

The Finborough Theatre have announced that, due to Covid, their January production of the English premiere of The Straw Chair has been postponed and will now play at the venue from 19 April – 14 May 2022.

The new dates are now on sale, and all ticket holders will be refunded in full.

Sue Glover’s The Straw Chair is a modern Scottish classic, exploring liberty, marriage, madness and incarceration, and female empowerment, against the backdrop of the lost way of life of the Western Isles.

Directed by Polly Creed, the productin features set design by Alex Marker, costumes by Carla Joy Evans, lighting by Claire Childs, sound by Anna Short, and musical direction by Rori Hawthorn.

The cast includes Rori Hawthorn. Nicholas Karimi. Jenny Lee and Siobhan Redmond.

“There is a lesson you should learn from your stay on Hirta: the danger of being too troublesome a wife.”

1735. Isabel, barely seventeen, is sent from Edinburgh and the life she has always known, to live with her new husband on Gaelic-speaking St Kilda, an island on the furthest edges of the Outer Hebrides, in the storm-tossed waters of the Atlantic Ocean.

Struggling to adapt to island life, Isabel meets Rachel – a wild, seemingly mad woman, shunned by the local inhabitants. Over time, Isabel learns that Rachel is none other than the infamous Lady Grange, kidnapped by her husband following their bitter divorce and long imprisoned on the island. Lady Grange clings with tragic dignity to the two things she has left in the world – a consuming rage and an old straw chair.

The Finborough Theatre will now reopen with the previously announced world premiere of Bliss by Fraser Grace, based on a short story by the brilliant but little-known Russian writer Andrey Platonov, from 1-26 February 2022.

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