The heroines explored by Heroica Theatre Company to date represent seven extraordinary women dating from 1456 – 1992. All playscripts are available for download at £5 each.
The plays provide a valuable educational reference for school or adult learning programmes concerned with women’s history. The texts can be used for full scale productions or for written responses. Extension activities around the texts and eras covered are available on application to the company.
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An Eclipse of the Sun
An Eclipse of the Sun
Lady Anne Neville, daughter to Richard, Earl of Warwick – the ‘kingmaker’ – lived at Middleham Castle alongside her cousin Richard, Duke of Gloucester (later to become Richard 111). Her father’s declining fortunes and her early marriage to Edward, Prince of Wales left her both cast adrift and widowed by the age of 16. She was rescued by Richard and brought back to Middleham to a decade or so of blissful married existence. The couple’s accession of the throne of England, the death of her 10-year-old son Edward, the implications of her husband in treasonous machinations and her own ill health saw her dead at Middleham by the age of 28, a tragically short and cheated young life.
Read an extract here.