FROZEN

By Bryony Lavery

Main House

1 – 11 APRIL

Director: Dave Crossfield

“What is striking is that Lavery’s play is both radical in form and progressive in content….and theatrically riveting……It increases our understanding, which is Lavery’s ultimate intention.”

Michael Billington, The Guardian

Rhona, a 10 year old girl, walks out of her parents’ house en route to her grandmother and never arrives. Her mother, Nancy, retreats into a state of frozen hope.

Over subsequent years three characters come to terms with this in very different ways; her mother, her killer and the criminal psychologist who studies the case. The play questions the appetite for retribution.

The structure of the play makes for compelling viewing as we move from monologue to dialogue.

Hailed by the Independent as one of the 40 greatest plays of all time, after a premiere at the Birmingham Rep in 1998, where it won Best Play, Frozen made its debut at the National Theatre in 2002, moving to Broadway and securing four Tony nominations.

It was most recently revived in the West End in 2018 with Suranne Jones.

This amateur production of “Frozen” is presented by arrangement with Concord Theatricals Ltd. on behalf of Samuel French Ltd.