Magnificent and revolutionary play set to premiere at the Tron Theatre
Tron Theatre Company is delighted to be presenting the Scottish premiere of Escaped Alone, Caryl Churchill's award-winning play!
Article Source: Tron Theatre
Last Updated: 23 January 2024 16:31
Directed by Tron Theatre’s Associate Director Joanna Bowman, Escaped Alone, documenting an afternoon of friendly chat punctured by catastrophe and revelations, remains both socially and politically impactful in 2024 as global temperatures hit record highs and wildfires, floods, drought and warfare rampage across the world.
On the surface Escaped Alone looks like a very civilised and fairly mundane garden get-together between three women. That is until the three old friends are joined by their neighbour Mrs Jarrett, played by the incredible Blythe Duff, and their chat alternates between idle gossip and a set of monologues: three of the women reveal crippling anxieties and dark secrets, with Mrs Jarrett narrating a contradictory and often absurd—but all-too-plausible—set of apocalypses.
With Churchill’s text stating that the characters are all ‘at least 70’, Joanna has assembled a strong female cast of older Scottish actors known for their popular stage and television work. Blythe Duff (James IV – Queen of the Fight (National Theatre of Scotland); Harry Potter and the Cursed Child (Palace Theatre, West End); Locker Room Talk, Grain in the Blood (Traverse Theatre)) takes on the role of Mrs Jarrett and will be joined by Anne Kidd (Tennessee Rose (Pleasance Theatre);Tay Bridge (Dundee Rep); A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity (Òran Mór)) as Lena, Irene Macdougall (A Christmas Carol, The Children, The Steamie, Don Quixote, All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, August: Osage County, The Cheviot and the Stag and the Black, Black Oil (Dundee Rep)) as Vi and Joanna Tope (Tree of Knowledge (Traverse); Locker Room Talk (Traverse Theatre/Latitude Festival); Still Game Live: Bon Voyage! (SSE Hydro) as Sally.
With Escaped Alone giving voice to the often-overlooked older woman, the friend group’s worldview, stoicism and life-experience offer reassurance and a sense of resilience while all around them implodes. Complex, stark and sometimes darkly funny, Escaped Alone is a work of quiet power and terrible, terrible rage.
Director Joanna Bowman says of the piece: “For me, Caryl Churchill’s Escaped Alone is one of the most intriguing and singular plays of the twenty-first century. A swirl of catastrophe and chaos, the play pushes at the boundaries of what theatre can do, and the images we can put onstage. Highly theatrical and full of genuine surprise, her plays are a gift to a theatre director: to spend time inside Churchill’s brilliant imagination and with her precise and compelling words is a joy. The play speaks to 2024 in the way that only live, in-the-room theatre can, with politically vital and fiercely funny events throughout. Her plays are rarely performed in Scotland, and I am thrilled to be bringing Escaped Alone to the Tron’s audience with a top-drawer cast of actors.”
Caryl Churchill has a reputation as ‘Britain’s greatest living playwright’ and Escaped Alone retains the leftist and feminist politics of Churchill’s best known works Top Girls and Cloud 9.
Jo Bowman is the Tron Theatre’s Associate Director 2022-24, and a rapidly rising star in the Scottish directing scene. In this Associate Director role she most recently directed Ross Willi’s play Wolfie for the Changing House studio in May 2023 to blistering reviews. She likes theatre that is messy and loud.
Escaped Alone was originally produced at the Royal Court in London in 2016 to strong reviews and also went on to win Best Play at the Writers’ Guild Awards 2017.
Running time approx. 50 minutes with no interval.
Recommended age – 14+ Contains strong language, adult themes, sexual references and references to domestic violence.
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