Shirley:
An Awakening
About the show
“Poignant, passionate, connecting”
“Electric, thought-provoking, Queer!”
“If you think romance is ahead, you never were more mistaken…
Do you feel the ground swell? Do you feel the earthquake?”
Yorkshire, 1811.
A village is tearing apart at the seams.
A global force of progress and fear, raging like a tidal wave.
A woman, less flesh and more lightning.
A worker, starved for a voice.
A migrant mill owner, with “forward” stamped on his soul.
And the heart that holds them all - whose beat can change the rhythm of a revolution.
Shirley: An Awakening is a new gig-musical reimagining of Charlotte Brontë’s novel. A hymn of resistance and a howl for change.
An archipelago arts collective production in association with Leeds Industrial Museum.
Creative Team
FROM THE ORIGINAL NOVEL BY
WRITER & SOUND DESIGNER
COMPOSER, LYRICIST & MUSICAL DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR & DRAMATURG
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER
Charlotte Brontë
Brid Addison-Child
Seán Ryan
Beth Knight
Lu Herbert