(The) Woman
M is a writer. M is a mother. M is a woman.
The triumph of M’s hit play is hijacked by motherhood – M is burnt out, angry, lonely, craving intimacy but disengaged, and terrified of the future.
She wants to tell her story, her way. But, everyone around her shares their opinions on who she is, who she should be and how she’s messing everything up.
Fiercely funny and brutally honest, award-winning writer Jane Upton’s Bruntwood Prize shortlisted play shatters the glossy veneer of motherhood, exposing its raw, messy truth, and dares to question the definition of (her) Self.
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Presented by
New Perspectives and Royal & Derngate, Northampton
Written by
Jane Upton
Age guidance
15+
Please note, no under 5s will be admitted to the auditorium.
Content Advice
Contains strong language, references of a sexual nature and references to baby loss.
Running Time
1 hour and 30 minutes without an interval.
Fees and Charges
Please note there is a transaction fee of £3.50 on all payment types.
Venue
Cast
Lizzy Watts
Lizzy Watts trained at The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama.
Theatre includes: The Commotion Time (Exeter Northcott); SHED: Exploded View (Manchester Royal Exchange); Either and Ravenscourt (Hampstead); Dealing With Clair and The False Servant (Orange Tree); Hedda Gabler (National Theatre); Strife (Chichester); Angry Brigade and Artefacts (The Bush); God of Chaos and Merit (Theatre Royal Plymouth); A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Shakespeare’s Globe); Blink (Nabokov); Twelfth Night (Filter); Wasted (Paines Plough).
TV includes: Call The Midwife, Professor T, Endeavour, The Durrells, Midsomer Murders.
Film includes: The Best Man.
Lizzy has recorded many radio dramas for the BBC and played regular character Ivy Layton in Radio 4’s Home Front.
Jamie-Rose Monk
Jamie-Rose Monk trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts.
Theatre credits include: Hansel and Gretel; Princess Essex; The Taming of the Shrew (The Globe), Christmas Actually (The Southbank Centre), Greatest Days The Musical (National Tour), The Witch Finder’s Sister (Queen’s Theatre Hornchurch), Talent (Sheffield Crucible), Dick Whittington (National Theatre), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bridge Theatre), The Rise And Fall Of Little Voice (Park Theatre), Yap Yap Yap (Royal Festival Hall and Soho Theatre), Fat – A One Woman Show (Hackney Showrooms/Gaggle Productions), The Poisoners’ Pact (Stuff of Dreams Tour), Monologue Slam Winner’s Edition (Theatre Royal Stratford East/Triforce Promotions).
Television credits include: My Lady Jane (Amazon Studios); Gangsta Granny Strikes Again (BBC); Doctors (Semi Regular, BBC); Holby City (BBC); Class Dismissed (Series Regular, Series 1-3, CBBC); Gameface (Objective Fiction).
Film credits include: Holmes & Watson (Columbia Pictures Corporation).
Comedy credits include: Buttery Brown Monk (Leicester Square Theatre); The Gag Show (Gaggle Productions).
Radio credits include: Sketchtopia – Series 1 & 2 (BBC Radio 4), Athena’s Cancel Culture (BBC Radio 4)
Cian Barry
Cian recently appeared across cinemas in Per Fly’s feature as Heinrich Wieschhoff in the new feature Hammarskjöld, opposite Sex Education’s Mikael Persbrandt.
Cian has just filmed FBI: International and will soon be seen in ITV’s returning crime series DI Ray, playing Ethan Henderson.
Further film credits include: Falling Into Place (Weydemann Bros.); Snap Shot (Contraption Ltd/Parkland Pictures); A Winter Prince (Wales Productions); Caught; Nina Forever (Jeva Films); RPG (MGN Filmes); Holy Water (Feature Productions); Ghost Town (Haunted Productions) and In The Spiders Web (Thistle Productions).
TV credits include: Midsomer Murders (ITV); Out Of Her Mind (Stolen Picture); Treadstone (Not-4-Not Productions); The A List (Kindle Entertainment); Outlaws; Doctor Foster; Father Brown; New Tricks (all BBC); Shameless Series 7 (Channel 4) and Walking The Dead (BBC).
Theatre credits include: Wildefire (Hampstead), Translations (Sheffield Theatres), Our Boys (Duchess Theatre), The Member Of The Wedding (Young Vic Theatre).
Cian has a great presence in the video-gaming scene, best known as Zane in the Borderlands.
André Squire
TRAINING: Ian Smith, ITV Workshop, Nottingham; Identity Drama School
THEATRE INCLUDES: One Night in Miami (ABKCO Theater/Nottingham Playhouse), The Grapes of Wrath (Nuffield Theatre), The Refugee Boy (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Lonely Cowboy (West Yorkshire Playhouse), Blue (Arts Theatre, Notts), Measure for Measure (ITV Workshop), Romeo and Juliet (ITV Workshop), Our Style Is Legendary (Nottingham Playhouse)
TELEVISION INCLUDES: Blade Runner 2099 (Amazon Prime), Suspect: The Shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes (Etta Pictures), 3 Little Birds (Tiger Aspect), FBI International (CBS Studios), Nova Jones (JAM Media), Worzel Gummidge (Leopard Pictures), Gold Digger (BBC), Gormint (Amazon Prime), Jamie Johnson (CBBC), Doctors, West 10 LDN (Kudos), Off the Hook (Greenroom Entertainment/BBC), The Vice (Carlton TV), A Thing Called Love (BBC)
FILM INCLUDES: Greenland: Migration, BYPASS (Third Films), One for the Road (Film Four)
Creative Team
Writer
Jane Upton
Jane Upton
Jane Upton is a Writer, whose plays include The Price of Home (Paines Plough & Derby Theatre: Come to Where I Am, S6); Finding Nana (Pleasance Edinburgh Festival, dir Katie Posner, New Perspectives), All the Little Lights (Fifth Word, UK tour, Arcola Theatre), Watching the Living – an adaptation of two short stories by Daphne Du Maurier (New Perspectives, UK tour), Swimming (Menagerie Theatre, Hotbed Festival, Soho Theatre and Edinburgh Festival), and Bones (Fifth Word, Edinburgh Festival and UK tour).
Following Paines Plough’s nomination, Jane Upton is the winner of the Adopt a Playwright Award for her next play.
All the Little Lights was nominated Best Play for the 2019 OFFIES and for the 2017 Writers’ Guild of Great Britain Awards; it was joint winner of the 2016 George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. The play is published by Nick Hern Books. Jane received a bursary from the Peggy Ramsay Foundation and was shortlisted for CBBC New Voices Initiative.
Director
Angharad Jones
Angharad Jones
Angharad joined touring company New Perspectives as Artist Director and CEO in October 2021. Formerly she co-founded Fifth Word and was joint Artistic Director for 15 years.
Angharad’s directing credits include:
For New Perspectives: Model Village (UK tour); The Swearing Jar (UK tour); The Great Almighty Gill (Edinburgh Fringe/UK tour); script in hand reading of MARYLAND; The Fishermen (Associate Director, world premiere tour and West End run).
For Fifth Word: LAVA by James Fritz (world premiere Nottingham Playhouse, Soho & UK tour); All The Little Lights by Jane Upton (Associate Director, Nottingham Playhouse/UK tour – joint winner of the George Devine Award and nominated for Best New Play at the Writers’ Guild Awards); Bones (Edinburgh Fringe/Tristan Bates Theatre/UK tour); Painkillers (Edinbugh Fringe & UK tour).
Designer
Sara Perks
Sara Perks
Dramaturg
Sarah Dickenson
Sarah Dickenson
Sarah is a dramaturg and writer with over twenty-year’s experience in creating work that is inclusive, representative and full of wonder.
She has been Associate Dramaturg at LAMDA, Paines Plough and the RSC Midsummer Mischief, Production Dramaturg for the Globe Holy Warriors by David Eldridge, Princess Essex by Anne Odeke, Senior Reader at Soho Theatre, Literary Manager for Theatre503, New Writing Associate at The Red Room and founding Coordinator for the South West New Writing Network. Sarah’s historical drama The Commotion Time received its world premiere at Exeter Northcott in October 2024 directed by Martin Berry in association with Poundstock Gildhouse.
She wrote her first radio play North Ealing in 2010 for Theatre503, directed by Teunkie van der Slujis. Jo Mcinnes directed her next piece, Power/Play which played a summer run at Hampton Court in 2017. She is currently writing the book for a new musical whilst also developing a host of other new ideas for the stage and screen.
Lighting Designer
Lily Woodford-Lewis
Lily Woodford-Lewis
Sound Designer
Bella Kear
Bella Kear
Bella Kear trained at LAMDA. Her work in theatre includes, as Sound Designer: Summer 1954 (Theatre Royal Bath) and on tour; Here In America (Orange Tree Theatre); The Good John Proctor (Offie nominated), Boy in Da Korma (Jermyn Street Theatre); The Great Murder Mystery (The Lost Estate); Invisible (Bush Theatre and New York); Elephant and Clutch (Bush Studio); The Night Woman (The Other Place); The Animal Kingdom(Hampstead Theatre).
As Associate or Assistant Sound Designer: Mnemonic (Olivier Theatre); Newsies (Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre); Liberation Squares (Nottingham Playhouse); Silence (Donmar Warehouse); Edith (The Lowry); Blue/Orange (Theatre Royal Bath and tour); Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner (Riksteatern); A Place for We (Park Theatre); and Sizwe Banzi is Dead (MAST Mayflower Studios and tour). Other projects include Mudlarking, a sound installation at the Bush Theatre.
Projection Designer
Matt Powell
Matt Powell
Matt (they/them) is an Offie finalist video designer, musical theatre creative and queer practitioner.
Recent Video Design and Digital credits include: Little Shop of Horrors, Sheffield Crucible, Cake: The Marie Antoinette Playlist (The Other Palace), The Elixir of Love (English National Opera), Brace Brace (Royal Court), Ghost Ships (Icon Theatre), The Real Ones (Bush Theatre), Mother of the Revolution (Leeds Industrial Museum), New Year (Birmingham Opera); Marie Curie – A New Musical (Charing Cross Theatre); Laughing Boy (Jermyn Street Theatre and Theatre Royal Bath); Sherlock Holmes and the Poison Wood (The Watermill Theatre) EXhibitionists (King’s Head Theatre); I Really Do Think That This Will Change Your Life (Pleasance Dome, Edinburgh & Stage Awards for Innovation Finalist – Mercury Theatre, Colchester): Gypsy in Concert (Manchester Opera House for Hope Mill Theatre); REBECCA (Charing Cross Theatre); RIDE (The Old Globe, Curve and Southwark Playhouse); ANIMAL (Offie Finalist – Hope Mill Theatre and Park Theatre); Accidental Death of an Anarchist (Theatre Royal Haymarket, Sheffield Theatres and Lyric Hammersmith); Rumi: The Musical (D’asha Performing Arts Festival and London Coliseum), Flight (Royal College of Music).
Assistant Director
Jessy Roberts
Jessy Roberts
Stage Manager