The Unreturning by Anna Jordan

WEDNESDAY 9 NOVEMBER 2022 - SATURDAY 12 NOVEMBER 2022, 7.45PM

Directed by Laura Elizabeth

A Northern British coastal town. Three young soldiers are coming home from war.

Their stories, set at different times over a hundred years, are beautifully interwoven in Anna Jordan's The Unreturning, a play that explores the profound effect that war has on young people's lives, and asks – what does coming home really mean? What is home? And when experience has shattered you into a million pieces, will home help to put you together again, or treat you as an ugly truth it does not want to confront?

The directing team behind Girls Like That, Hangmen and A Christmas Carol are back at the Harlequin’s with one of Anna Jordan’s masterpieces. Laura saw the production at The Everyman in Liverpool and fell in love with the piece.

PRESS QUOTES

'A moving meditation on war and masculinity... Jordan paints a complex picture of masculinity, its crises, its toxicity and its deepest feelings... the writing is sensitive'

The Arts Desk

'A feverishly intense drama... visceral and insightful'

Time Out

'An incredibly moving show, full of beautifully interwoven stories which are sensitively told, hard-hitting and immensely poignant at the same time... there is so much for students to choose from for a scripted exam performance, and there are beautiful monologues from each character to explore'

Drama & Theatre Magazine

'Brutally and beautifully honest'

Broadway World

CAST in order of appearance

Alex Wight, Adam Wade, Callum Johnson, Phil Perry, Josh Besso,

Douglas Connor-Webb, Curtis Washburn, Cirilla Neiles, Rachel Perrin, Emily Pinches, Ed Green