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Sat 15 Feb 2025 - Sat 12 Apr 2025
BACKSTROKE
BY ANNA MACKMIN
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BACKSTROKE

BY ANNA MACKMIN
TAMSIN GREIG & CELIA IMRIE
Sat 15 Feb 2025 - Sat 12 Apr 2025

★★★★ "Celia Imrie is mesmerising … Tamsin Greig also delivers a wonderful performance in Anna Mackmin’s ferociously unsentimental play" The Times

★★★★ “Stays with you long after you leave the theatre behind” Radio Times

★★★★ “An extraordinary play about a mother and daughter relationship” The Arts Desk

★★★★ “Anna Mackmin’s witty, heartfelt and immaculately acted portrait of a lifelong mother-daughter relationship” Theatre Cat

“Original and moving”  The Guardian

“Confirms Greig as one of our finest actresses” The Telegraph

“Imrie delivers her colourful dialogue with devilish delight” The Independent

“Just let go. Let your body float. You’ll still be here but it’ll feel like flying in a dream.”

Bo is busy - balancing the pressures of work and the needs of her struggling daughter. When her mother, the irrepressible force-of-nature Beth, is admitted to hospital following a stroke, the practical realities of the present collide with the complexities of their past.

Celia Imrie and Tamsin Greig play mother and daughter in this kaleidoscopic and compassionate new play, written and directed by Anna Mackmin.


With special thanks to our Season Supporter, Charles Holloway OBE

 

RUNNING TIME

Approximately 2 hours and 20 minutes including a 20 minute interval.

Cast, Creative

Tamsin Greig

Actor

Celia Imrie

Actor

Lucy Briers

Actor

Anita Reynolds

Actor

Georgina Rich

Actor

Anna Mackmin

Writer & Director

Lez Brotherston

Designer

Paule Constable

Lighting Designer

Christopher Shutt

Sound Designer

Gino Ricardo Green

Video Designer

Scarlett Mackmin

Choreographer

Anna Cooper CDG

Casting Director

Fiona Dunn

Associate Director

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Photography by Johan Persson

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