19:00, Tue 4th – Sat 8th November 2025 at Corpus Playroom
Michaelmas Week 4
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References to blood, war, and misogyny.
Brief Mentions of disordered eating, and pregnancy.
Implications of physical and mental abuse, sexual assault.
What would you do for freedom?
For Carthage, the war against Rome laid beyond the horizon, on the shores Spain, the depths of Italy, but now it rears its ugly head in Africa. In a desperate attempt for allies, the noble-woman Sophonisba is torn away from her lover, and married to another.
Now she finds herself a political pawn, but can her own schemes save the very state that betrayed her? Her former lover, scorned and cast aside, grows restless as the war tears them apart once again.