The Green Room's new 2015-2016 season kicks off with Shelagh Stephenson's thought-provoking play, "An Experiment with an Air Pump".
It's millennium eve in Newcastle in 1799. Radical physician-scientist, Joseph Fenwick is gazing wide-eyed into the next century whilst vainly attempting to keep his dysfunctional family under control. In the same house in 1999, Ellen, a research scientist is agonising over her planned new job in genetics. But what is the link between past and present that has lain undisturbed beneath the kitchen floor for two hundred years?
Part whodunnit, part love story and part battle of the sexes, Ms Stephenson's witty and intriguing play not only links two centuries of science but also questions philosophical and social ethics of the day.
Directed by the Green Room's Mike Rogerson, this provocative play runs from October 10th to 17th. Online bookings can be made via www.wgrsoc.org.uk, telephone bookings via 01625 540933 and postal bookings via the Green Room theatre at 85 Chapel Lane, Wilmslow SK9 5JH. The Box Office at the theatre will also be open on Saturday September 19th and 26th and on October 3rd and 10th between 11am and midday if you prefer to call in personally to make a booking.
Photo: Josh Neary (Peter Mark Roget), Anna Sillitoe (Harriet Fenwick), Paul Reid (Dr Joseph Fenwick), Mark Rowlands (Thomas Armstrong), Rani Jackson (Ellen) and Vicky Bourne (Maria Fenwick).
Guest post by Hilary Pinnock.
