blackberries – new play R&D

We’ve been delighted to offer R&D support to Josephine Starte’s brilliant new play ‘blackberries’ this month, and are very excited to be hosting two staged readings on 22nd October 1PM & 4PM

About blackberries

Following a disastrous birthday trip, unemployed and grieving the death of her estranged father, Ros is gifted a childhood favourite book by her girlfriend, Kiki. Set in an idealised 1920s English village, this kitsch, cosy fiction opens a door to intoxicating escapism, where Ros develops an insatiable, unnerving love for an imagined rural past.

blackberries is a darkly comic ménage à trois between two women and an idealised Old England, exploring nostalgia as addiction and love dying on the vine.

This staged reading of ‘blackberries’ is supported by Arts Council England

Written by Josephine Starte

Directed by Hanna Berrigan

Dramaturgy support from Rosie Wyatt

Starring Josephine Starte, Eliza Jean Scott and Ami Okumura Jones

Praise for previous work: 
‘Very funny’ Time Out

‘Breathtaking’ A Younger Theatre