Machinal

“Your skin oughtn’t to curl—ought it—when he just comes near you—ought it?”

Written by sophie Treadwell
Directed by Janet Steel

The city. A woman is restless. A woman is suffocating. A woman is silenced.

The woman revolts.

Machinal follows the life of Young Woman who, constrained by a society that favours men and money, marries her employer despite not loving him. As we move through her life from marriage, to honeymoon, into motherhood and eventually an affair, the audience are asked to question if it is possible for women to live independently of men. It is the story of a woman battling the consequences of decisions she felt powerless to overturn, a woman who murders her husband to free herself from a suffocating marriage, a women finding agency in her life.

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