JOANNE

About the show

Five of the most exciting voices in theatre explore the pressures on our public services as one woman buckles under pressures of her own. Commissioned and produced by Clean Break, the play came to the Making Mischief Festival 2016 after debuting at Latitude Festival and enjoying a critically-acclaimed run at Soho Theatre. Our first festival of new plays ran during summer 2016 in the reopened The Other Place. What is unsayable in the 21st century? Over the course of these four plays, our writers responded to this challenge with daring explorations of language, race, gender and life in Britain today. We called on people to join us in our intimate new theatre space at The Other Place and confront their own assumptions about what is taboo in the times we live in.