Highly moving and relevant play’ (The F Word), Three Generations of Women, is coming to Manchester next week. 
More than 2000 women have contributed stories from their lives towards a powerful new play by award-winning theatre company Broken Leg Theatre. The women, from across the UK, whose ages span from 15 – 102, have shared their stories through the website threegenerationsofwomen.co.uk and in person at forums run in Leeds (where the play is set), London and Brighton, over a year-long research project by writers Anna Jefferson and Alice Trueman. 

 The resulting powerful and very funny new play explores female relationships and identities as friends, mothers, daughters, confidantes and the ways these have changed over the past 100 years, through the lens of one family’s secrets. 

Now, an all-female cast and creative team (15 brilliant women in all), including director Ria Parry (National Theatre Studio) and designer Simone Romaniuk (Adelaide Festival) have brought the stories to life in a new production coming to Manchester for Easter weekend at the Lowry. Our three shows in the Quays include a special mother and baby matinee, supporting mums of children under 1 to have chance to enjoy the production.

At a time when the national debate is focused on the ongoing inequality of opportunity faced by women both in the arts and in general, this is a timely production, with a Northern focus, that sheds a unique light on real female experiences and puts its money where its mouth is by placing working women at its heart. 

The show is produced by an all women team which includes Mancunian Beccy Smith who grew up in Bury and now runs a production company based in Brighton.

Three Generations of Women 

Lowry Studio. Salford  

25th March 7pm; 26th March 2pm (baby friendly) and 7pm 

Tickets £12 / £10

0843 208 6000

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