Raising the Wreck-Revisited!

“A pioneering piece of unapologetically women’s theatre, loud, vibrant, hilarious and somehow holy”, Joelle Taylor, poet, writer, performer and winner of the TS Eliot prize for poetry.“I remember “Raising the Wreck” as a ground-breaking drama bringing lesbian lives to the fore.  It’s fitting that it should be re-introduced to a new audience forty years after it was first produced", Bernardine Evaristo, writer, author, original cast member, and the first black woman to win The Booker Prize. Forty years after its groundbreaking premiere, an iconic piece of British theatre returns for a new generation.
For centuries, four women pirates have been lying on a wreck at the bottom of the sea. Grace O’Malley, Mary Read, Aku and Zoa have drifted through time unperturbed by the progress of the modern age. Until 1985 when they were visited by Jenny who took their stories into the 1980’s.In 2026 Jenny falls through time again and lands on their long-forgotten shipwreck, armed with nothing but a mobile phone and a head full of questions.Blending history, mythology and contemporary politics with humour, music and storytelling, “Raising The Wreck – Revisited!” is a bold re-imagining of Sue Frumin’s pioneering play. Originally commissioned by Gay Sweatshop Theatre Company, the production was one of the first British plays to feature a multi-racial cast of women and to place lesbian stories centre stage!
By Sue Frumin Starring: Deborah Bouchard, Lucienne Browne, Hayley Cartwright, Amy Chung, and Shenagh Govan. Directed by Hannah Tyrrell-Pinder. Designed by Lara Booth. Book your tickets now!

*Note: 5-7th Nov at The Empty Space, Salford at 7.30pm
21st(7.30pm)/22nd (2.30pm) Nov at Theatre Porto, Ellesmere Port