PRESS RELEASE for immediate release June 2nd 2022
Buxton Fringe’s exciting theatre category boasts a host of fascinating female characters.
Making a welcome return to Buxton is the Rotunda, a large blue geodesic dome which will land on the Old Bowling Green in Pavilion Gardens in July. It will host three shows about strong women, literally in the case of Above the Title’s Hannah’s Left Hook, as time spent scrubbing floors develops a washerwoman’s devastating left hook that she uses to defend the oppressed. In It’s Not Rocket Science, Letter for Letter Theatre is up with the stars, but still battling inequality in a five-star show based on interviews with over 20 female aerospace professionals, while the multi-award-winning Selina Helliwell is The Formidable Lizzie Boone; join a woman who loves vodka with lemonade and a cat called Lionel for a night of drama, dark comedy and maybe a nipple tassel or two…
Over at Underground, firm Fringe favourite, Ruth E Cockburn brings 100 years of history to life in Miss Nobodies, a two-hander exploring a century of women’s stories in a single Lancashire shop through storytelling, music, and poetry from the UK's first working-class female novelist, Ethel Carnie Holdsworth. Jumping around the centuries, not fixed in time or space, Blue Masque Theatre’s Bessie at Midnight Alone is packed with tense drama and fiery Northern wit as it finds a harlot waiting outdoors for a client.
Two famous historical figures feature at the Green Man Gallery. In Fotheringhay; An Audience with Mary Queen of Scots, Jane Collier gives an intimate view of this gifted, charming, fun-loving and intensely loyal queen, who after 18 years of captivity and her descent into despair, faces imminent execution at Fotheringhay Castle. Set in 1930s’ England, Sylvia vs The Fascists from Breathe Out Theatre reveals how as the British government strikes bargains with Hitler and the authorities turn a blind eye to the nation’s own fascists on the march, one person is ready for battle: Sylvia Pankhurst.
Just outside Buxton at the High Peak Bookstore and Café, Oak Tree Theatre Collective hosts How to Fall in Love, an all-female performance exploring friendship and love featuring new writing by Stoke-based women.
Further theatre treats can be discovered on www.buxtonfringe.org.uk and on the free to download Buxton Fringe App.
The Fringe wishes to thank High Peak Borough Council, its Fringe Friends and the town’s many Fringe supporters and venues.
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