On the marshy fens of eastern England in the 1980s, ghosts of the past haunt the women who labor as tenant farmers in the potato fields and who lead lives essentially unchanged from their 19th-century forebears. When Val seizes on a new relationship as a path to escape the crushing bonds of work, poverty, and family, she is confronted with the explosive repercussions of her decision. Employing astonishing theatrical imagery, Churchill’s Fen shows with grace and sly humor how the intricate pressures of gender and class both shape and distort the characters of women.
Directed by Vanessa Stalling
Featuring Lizzie Bourne, Cruz Gonzalez-Cadel, Alex Goodrich, Elizabeth Laidlaw, Morgan Lavenstein, Genevieve VenJohnson