2
MAY

Darwin's Cleaner

Calverley Grounds

Sat 2nd May

1.30 pm

Calverley Grounds : Darwin's Cleaner

For this thought provoking piece, playwright Saskia Wesnigk invented a woman from the 19th century – a servant, who would not have been documented at all except for the extraordinary circumstances into which she was born. In February 1809 the cook has a daughter - Hen, but on the same day in the same house is born a boy: the extraordinary Charles Darwin!

Their lives become entwined. We meet Hen when she has had enough of the mess and the carcasses, the flesh eating plants and the pinned butterflies. A woman can only put up with so much, and life has thrown a lot at our resilient and loving Henrietta Brown. Watch Hen dishing the dirt on the Darwins and finding her own way as the world for Victorian women begins to change.

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