Camdram

    Machinal
    By Sophie Treadwell

    19:00, Tue 22nd – Sat 26th January 2019 at Corpus Playroom
    Lent Week 1

    “Your skin oughtn't to curl - ought it - when he just comes near you- ought it? That's wrong, ain't it? You don't get over that, do you - ever, do you or do you?”

    The city. A woman is restless. A woman is suffocating. A woman is silenced.
    The woman revolts.

    It’s America’s Golden Age, a time of happiness, freedom and prosperity––or is it? For one young woman in the industrial, male-dominated world of the 1920s, life is nothing like she hoped it would be. Restless and unfulfilled in a passionless marriage and an unwanted motherhood, she finds her only joy in the form of an illicit love affair. But when reality sets in and she must return to her routine existence, she’ll go to any lengths "to be free".

    Inspired by the infamous 1927 murder trial of Ruth Snyder, Machinal is a riveting look at the danger that can come from a life unlived.

    Cast

    Richard Roe
    Telephone Girl
    George H. Jones
    Young Woman
    Woman/Lawyer
    Stenographer/Nurse
    Mr Smith/Lawyer/Priest
    Filing Clerk/Judge

    Production Team

    Director
    Assistant Director
    Stage Manager
    Lighting Designer
    Costume Designer
    Set Designer
    Producer
    Sound Designer
    Publicity Designer
    Block man –
    Block girl –
    Headshot Photographer –
    Video Designer –
    Composer
    Photographer