THE WELKIN
- A Crow's Theatre, Soulpepper Theatre, and The Howland Company Co-production
- Lucy Kirkwood
- Weyni Mengesha
- Sep 4 - Oct 5, 2025
- Young Centre for the Performing Arts – Baillie Theatre
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Canadian Premiere
Rural England, 1759. Halley’s Comet burns in the sky, and a young woman is sentenced to hang. But when she tries to escape the noose by claiming to be pregnant, a jury of twelve women is gathered to decide whether she is telling the truth. As tensions rise, their task becomes a reckoning: with the law, with power, and with the roles they’re forced to play in a world that silences them.
Tony Award nominee Lucy Kirkwood’s The Welkin (Chimerica, The Children) is a bold and blistering courtroom drama—by turns darkly comic and quietly devastating—about justice, duty, and righteous dissent.
CRITIC'S PICK
The New York Times“The Welkin is all muscle—taut and intense, energized not only by its moral indignation but by its sense of humor, and by the specific humanity of each of its large cast of characters.”
Vulture“Ungoverned, furious, layered…sheer gutsy audacity.”
The London Standard