Shirley:
An Awakening
About the show
“A slick, unique, perfectly crafted piece of theatre”
“Impossible to resist. Raw, raucous and righteously angry piece of gig-theatre with engaging performances and catchy, clever songs.”
“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.
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Creative Team
COMPOSER | LYRICIST | MUSICAL DIRECTOR Seán Ryan
DIRECTOR | DRAMATURG Beth Knight
WRITER Brid Addison-Child
SET & COSTUME DESIGNER Lu Herbert