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A Woman Walks Into a Bank Tickets
Winner of the 2023 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award
Date & Time
Until 09 Dec
Runtime: 2h 15m
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Theatre503 has a very particular and important place in London’s new writing ecology. It is a place for debuts, and over the years, it has produced some crackers. The latest, Roxy Cook’s play about an ordinary woman in Moscow who is conned into taking out a high-interest loan with wide-reaching consequences, is already a winner, scooping the 2023 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award. It also features a talking cat. What more could you want?
About A Woman Walks Into a Bank
Moscow, August 2018. The World Cup has just ended, and it has been a roaring success. Free Metro travel. Parties in the square. The police, the ones with guns, they were smiling! People finally saw that yeah, it’s okay over here and no, it doesn’t snow in the summer, it’s actually very warm. And wait, did we mention it was an incident free event? But when an old woman walks into a bank, she is conned into taking out a high interest loan which she immediately forgets all about. A catastrophic series of events are set in motion…with only her cat Sally to bear witness. Winner of the 2023 Theatre503 International Playwriting Award, A WOMAN WALKS INTO A BANK is a powerful portrayal of a country in crisis. Inspired by childhood fairytales, Roxy Cook’s vibrant debut play uses biting humour to interrogate the social apathy tearing Russia apart. How did we get here? How can we get out? Age recommendation: 12+