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1536 in green on a black background and repeated.
1536 in green on a black background and repeated.

1536

By Ava Pickett, Directed by Lyndsey Turner

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Tue 6 May - Sat 7 Jun 2025

Kings don’t kill their wives alright? It’s not – it just don’t happen. It doesn’t.

Tudor England. 

A field in Essex. 

Three women hurry to their childhood meeting place, thirsty for gossip from London. 

Word spreads of a clash between the King, Henry VIII and his Queen, Anne Boleyn. And closer to home, another rumour threatens to catch fire.

As these women realise the parallels between their ordinary, rural lives and the royal drama taking place at a distance, they are faced with several choices, all of which end in violence. 

Written as part of the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme, Ava Pickett’s 1536 was the winner of the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, and was commended by The George Devine Award for its “sparkling dialogue and savage undercurrent”. Lyndsey Turner (Chimerica) directs this fiendishly smart and funny new play which asks whether female solidarity can survive in a world where barbarism and misogyny are state sanctioned.

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Creative Team

Lyndsey Turner

Director

Production Supporters

1536 is the first play commissioned through the Genesis Almeida New Playwrights, Big Plays Programme to make its world premiere at the Almeida.

The production is generously supported by The Charlotte Aitken Trust and Cockayne Grants for the Arts & The London Community Foundation.

 

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