Apples in Winter

LynchPin Theatre marks its 25th anniversary in 2024 and celebrates by bringing an award-winning play to Derby. Apples In Winter beautifully gives voice to the hidden victims of crime. Miriam’s son has been on death row for 22 years. Today the state will execute him. As is the tradition he is granted a last meal: he asks for his mother’s apple pie. In this compelling and compassionate play Miriam shows us how to make the perfect pie as she grapples with what happened 22 years ago. Actor Edie Campbell plays the mother in a performance that was a finalist in the OFFIE Awards for Best Solo Performance in a production directed by Claire Parker.

‘A beautifully written single-hander and Campbell gives an astonishing performance... Directed brilliantly by Claire Parker the production makes powerful use of silence with Elisabeth Tooms’ lighting and Andrew Hodson’s bleak set design really enhancing the emotional impact.’ The Family Stage

‘Jennifer Fawcett’s play is hard-hitting enough but in the right hands it becomes absolutely devastating – and it’s hard to imagine hands more right than those of actor Edie Campbell.’ Theatre Things

Host or Publisher Philip Parker