1536
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1536, is the historical drama with a modern
1536, is the historical drama with a modern edge, now playing in the West End following a sold-out run at the Almeida Theatre.
Written by Ava Pickett, winner of the 2024 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Critics
Circle and London Standard Award’s Most Promising Playwright, directed by Lyndsey
Turner (Chimerica).
1536 and starring Liv Hill (Three Girls), Siena Kelly (Black Mirror) and Tanya Reynolds
(Sex Education). This new play explores the dynamics of female friendship in a world stacked against women.
Tudor England.
A field in Essex.
Three women hurry to their childhood meeting place, thirsty for gossip from London.
Word spreads of a clash between King Henry VIII and his Queen, Anne Boleyn. And
closer to home, another rumour begins to catch fire.
As these women begin to see echoes of the royal drama in their own rural lives and a
rise in violence spreads throughout the land, the actions of a queen imprisoned in a
tower threaten to cost them everything.