25 Sept: The Women of Lockerbie
The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort
Reading by arrangement with Ki Agency Ltd
'Pan Am Flight 103 was last seen in a fireball over Scotland’
It is exactly seven years after the deadliest terrorist attack in Britain: the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. Bereaved American couple Maddie and Bill visit the Scottish town for the first time in a bid to finally put the past behind them.
The women of Lockerbie have set up the Laundry Project - they want to wash the 11,000 items of clothing belonging to the victims that are still being held in a warehouse as forensic evidence, and return them to the victims’ families - an act of love and purification. But the US Government is proving uncooperative.
At midnight on the 21st December 1995, these stories collide with pathos, compassion and humour in this powerful script. ‘Hatred will not have the last word in Lockerbie.’
LynchPin Theatre returns to Petersfield Museum with a reading of The Women of Lockerbie, winner of the Onassis International Playwriting Competition’s Silver Medal, and the Kennedy Centre’s New American Plays award. LynchPin performed The Women of Lockerbie at the Electric Theatre, Guildford, in 2012, and has given readings of the play in London and the South East.
‘Who would have thought that a group of actors, dressed in black, sitting in a semi-circle on a bare stage could make a play reading so dramatic, so riveting and almost unbearably moving?’ Hugh Steadman Williams, playwright
‘A beautifully constructed and nuanced exploration of grief - a play of utmost subtlety and depth. Witnessing how the trauma shattered the lives of some, while strengthening others into fierce fighters, this moving play about overwhelming pain and the unexpected path to forgiveness is a rare jewel among fictional accounts of real-life atrocity, badly needed in today's world of global terrorism.’ Marina Cantacuzino, The Forgiveness Project
Reviews from other productions of The Women of Lockerbie:
‘Playwright Brevoort has a gift for high poetry and her descriptions of the day when death came raining down on Scotland are impressively moving’ Time Out
‘The play has the power to move an audience to new hope in a world witnessing continual acts of revenge and hatred.’ The Sydney Morning Herald
‘This finely-honed play has the formal beauty of a Greek tragedy, where not a minute is wasted in verbiage – where you are gripped from the opening moments and not released until the end.’ The Green Left Weekly
‘A moving, thoughtful exploration of grief’ The New Yorker
‘[A] tightly controlled depiction of collective sorrow’ The Daily Telegraph
Event Details:
Doors/Bar Opens: 19:00
Performance Starts: 19:30
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The Women of Lockerbie by Deborah Brevoort
Reading by arrangement with Ki Agency Ltd
'Pan Am Flight 103 was last seen in a fireball over Scotland’
It is exactly seven years after the deadliest terrorist attack in Britain: the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie. Bereaved American couple Maddie and Bill visit the Scottish town for the first time in a bid to finally put the past behind them.
The women of Lockerbie have set up the Laundry Project - they want to wash the 11,000 items of clothing belonging to the victims that are still being held in a warehouse as forensic evidence, and return them to the victims’ families - an act of love and purification. But the US Government is proving uncooperative.
At midnight on the 21st December 1995, these stories collide with pathos, compassion and humour in this powerful script. ‘Hatred will not have the last word in Lockerbie.’
LynchPin Theatre returns to Petersfield Museum with a reading of The Women of Lockerbie, winner of the Onassis International Playwriting Competition’s Silver Medal, and the Kennedy Centre’s New American Plays award. LynchPin performed The Women of Lockerbie at the Electric Theatre, Guildford, in 2012, and has given readings of the play in London and the South East.
‘Who would have thought that a group of actors, dressed in black, sitting in a semi-circle on a bare stage could make a play reading so dramatic, so riveting and almost unbearably moving?’ Hugh Steadman Williams, playwright
‘A beautifully constructed and nuanced exploration of grief - a play of utmost subtlety and depth. Witnessing how the trauma shattered the lives of some, while strengthening others into fierce fighters, this moving play about overwhelming pain and the unexpected path to forgiveness is a rare jewel among fictional accounts of real-life atrocity, badly needed in today's world of global terrorism.’ Marina Cantacuzino, The Forgiveness Project
Reviews from other productions of The Women of Lockerbie:
‘Playwright Brevoort has a gift for high poetry and her descriptions of the day when death came raining down on Scotland are impressively moving’ Time Out
‘The play has the power to move an audience to new hope in a world witnessing continual acts of revenge and hatred.’ The Sydney Morning Herald
‘This finely-honed play has the formal beauty of a Greek tragedy, where not a minute is wasted in verbiage – where you are gripped from the opening moments and not released until the end.’ The Green Left Weekly
‘A moving, thoughtful exploration of grief’ The New Yorker
‘[A] tightly controlled depiction of collective sorrow’ The Daily Telegraph
Event Details:
Doors/Bar Opens: 19:00
Performance Starts: 19:30
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