Award-winning Devon-based director Selwin Hulme-Teague presents a contemporary adaptation of Radclyffe Hall's scandalous queer classic novel.
A coming of age story about Stephen, a girl with a boy's name, and their search for love and belonging in Edwardian Britain. The beloved story and novel "The Well of Loneliness" comes to life like never before in an imaginative, contemporary stage production.
You think growing up gay is hard?
Try doing it in the early-20th century.
Stephen is a girl born into an aristocratic family living in the English countryside. As she grows up, she senses that she is different to other young girls - aside from her unusual name, she prefers masculine clothing, likes to ride and cuts her hair short. Despite her father’s support, Stephen grows up misunderstood. That is, until a charming American woman moves into the area and sparks a secret romance, taking Stephen into a whirlwind of joy, scandal, passion and tragedy.
Praise for previous work:
⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑ “a spell-binding production that is visually and audibly excellent.” - LondonTheatre1 | The Black Cat
⭑⭑⭑⭑ "Selwin Hulme-Teague‘s direction is considered, containing the emotion until it can’t be contained any more.” - The Wee Review | Squidge
⭑⭑⭑⭑ “Atmospheric, humorous and as mesmerising as the myths would have us believe.” - Everything Theatre | Sirena
WINNER - Ettie Award, Sirena
WINNER - FUSE Festival Best of Fringe, My Dad Wears A Dress
WINNER - OffComm Award, The Black Cat
NOMINATION - OffFest Award, Squidge
NOMINATION - Brighton Fringe Award, My Dad Wears A Dress
Content warnings
Homophobia/transphobia, death, violence, scenes of a sexual nature