Apples in Winter
Written by Jennifer Fawcett
Directed by Claire Parker
Performed by Edie Campbell, OFFIE finalist Best Solo Performance 2023
In a prison kitchen a mother is baking an apple pie: her son’s last request. As Miriam shows us how to make the perfect pie, we watch her grapple to understand what happened to her son - and how that night 22 years ago changed everything. The play offers a cathartic journey into the heart of barely resolvable questions about justice, forgiveness and love.
March 21, 2025
The Manor Pavilion, Sidmouth
OFFIE Finalist Solo Performance 2023
Winner of the National New Play Network Smith Prize for Political Theatre and the Susan Glaspell Award
Nominated for the Susan Smith Blackburn prize
“Apples in Winter is really, really good, with an immensely powerful one-woman performance from Edie Campbell that will leave you feeling shaken and devastated and furious. An absolute must-see.” Theatre Things
“a gentle domestic scene agonizingly held-fast against a backdrop of violence” Surrey Advertiser
“astonishing to watch, with a transfixing solo performance from Campbell and crystal clear direction from Parker which exudes humanity in every moment and builds beautifully to a heartbreaking climax.” Yorkshire Bylines
“Campbell gives an astonishing performance...Directed brilliantly by Claire Parker” My Family Stage
The Vegan Tigress
A new play by Claire Parker
Directed by Tracy Collier
Performed by Claire Parker and Edie Campbell
A 19th century feminist fairytale writer accidentally summons the highly offended ghost of her spurned lover’s formidable mother. The opposing worlds of free spirits and corsets collide in a chaotic bid to understand where stories can escape to when they’ve run their course.
February 17 - March 1, 2025
Bread and Roses Theatre, Clapham
“An important and wonderfully enjoyable play…sharp, funny, and fast-paced” ★★★★ everything theatre
“Original, funny and touching” ★★★★ London Pub Theatres
"Parker & Campbell keep an audience electrically aware at every stage of their shifting emotions, Parker with understated, but pointed, sensible exasperation, Campbell with volcanic elocutionary relish.”
★★★★ Lost in Theatreland
“A highly entertaining two-hander with compelling performances...Another success from the small but mighty LynchPin Productions”
The Family Stage