This play explores female agency through Hester Collyer, with her emotional and existential struggle at its heart. Her journey offers a compelling lens through which we witness a woman asserting control over her life in a society that offers her few real choices.  Hester defies the rigid expectations of post-war British society by leaving her respectable marriage to Sir William Collyer. In choosing passion over propriety and emotional truth over social conformity, she makes a radical act of self-determination that challenges the era’s prescribed roles for women.

Unfolding over a single day, Hester confronts the collapse of her relationship with Freddie Page, an ex-RAF pilot. The intensity that once sustained her now threatens to consume her. Caught between the “devil and the deep blue sea” — between the security of a loveless marriage and the instability of a failing affair — Hester must decide whether to continue living, and if so, how to find meaning in a world that seems to offer her no place.

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​The matinee starts at 2:30 on Sunday afternoon and the doors open at 1.45pm.  All the other performances start at 7:45pm with the doors opening at 7 o'clock.