In a small room away from prying eyes and ears a young girl meets a woman. The woman has studied law in England. The girl has committed a horrific crime. “I could help you,” says the woman. As the girl begins to speak, in stories, in riddles, the woman pieces together the truth about the crime. As she tells her stories, the young girl begins to sense the secrets the lawyer herself is desperate to hide.

Frank McGuinness’ new play delves into the darkest aspects of charity and aid, of guilt and penitence and of our need to find expression for our secrets and our crimes. Poetic, lyrical, haunting.


Toby Frow / Director

Toby's Directing Credits include Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Salisbury Playhouse), Pride and Prejudice (Bath Theatre Royal Productions No 1 Tour), Speaking In Tongues (Duke of Yorks Theatre), The Real Thing (Salisbury Playhouse), Some Kind Of Bliss (Trafalgar Studios and 59E59 Theatre, New York), Box (Birmingham Rep) Ship Of Fools (Theatre 503), Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre), The Pillowman (National Theatre UK Tour), Someone Who'll Watch Over Me (Northampton Theatre Royal), A View From The Bridge (West Yorkshire Playhouse & Birmingham Rep).

This autumn Toby will direct Doctor Faustus at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester.

Pippa Bennett-Warner

Pippa has recently graduated from RADA.
Theatre credits include: Ruined (Almeida Theatre), Victory (Theatre Royal, Bath), Caroline or Change (National Theatre), The Lion King (Lyceum Theatre).

Television Credits include: Lenny Henry in Pieces, Holby City.
Pippa was the winner of the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award 2010.


Ben Stones / Stage Designer

Ben trained in stage design at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and went on to win a Linbury prize commission to design Paradise Lost for Rupert Goold.

Designs include; Creditors, Kiss Of The Spider Woman (Donmar Warehouse), Beautiful Thing (Sound Theatre, Leicester Square), When Five Years Pass (Arcola Theatre), Humble Boy, Paradise Lost, Someone Who'll Watch Over Me, Just Between Ourselves (Theatre Royal Northampton), Paradise Lost (Headlong Theatre), The Arab Israeli Cookbook (Tricycle Theatre), The Mighty Boosh, Mitchell and Webb Live! (Phil McIntyre National tour).
Also; The Vegemite Tales (The Venue, Leicester Square), The Herbal Bed, The Real Thing (Salisbury Playhouse); Taste of Honey, Salt (Royal Exchange, Manchester), Romeo and Juliet (Shakespeare’s Globe), My Mother Said I Never Should (Watford Palace Theatre), My Dads a Birdman (Sheffield Crucible), Speaking in Tongues (Duke of Yorks, West End), Ingredient X (Royal Court Theatre Upstairs), An Enemy of the People (Sheffield Crucible), Creditors (Harvey Theatre, Bam, New York).

Forthcoming designs include; No Idea (Improbable Theatre, Young Vic), Doctor Faustus (Royal Exchange), Lower Ninth (Donmar Trafalgar Season).

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