Hindle Wakes

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Here you can watch new and popular plays every week. We deliver a full season of professional-quality productions and provide a performance venue for touring theatre companies. Anyone can get involved; become a Questors member and take part in everything from acting and directing to lighting, front of house and stage design. We also deliver theatre training for all ages; find out about our Academy and Youth Theatre.

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17 Oct - 25 Oct 25 | The Studio

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The Questors Theatre

Hindle Wakes

Stanley Houghton

I’ve to live my own life – why shouldn’t I choose what it’s to be?

It’s 1912 and mill workers in the Lancashire town of Hindle are enjoying their annual holiday or ‘wake’. Spirited mill girl Fanny Hawthorn claims to have spent the weekend with her friend Mary in Blackpool but a tragedy uncovers the truth of what she was really up to. Pressured by her parents and society to ‘do the right thing’, she decides to do what’s right for herself instead.

Controversial in its day, Houghton’s funny and touching play tackles gender inequality, hypocrisy and classism with a strong heroine ahead of her time.