Just To Get Married
by Cicely Hamilton
by Cicely Hamilton
Just to Get Married explores the challenges faced by a clever, poor woman in early 20th Century England as she navigates societal expectations around marriage and the concept of equality in relationships.
About The Play
About The Play
Approaching her 30th birthday in early 20th Century England, the clever and poor Georgiana Vicary is waiting for the handsome but shy Adam Lankester to propose to her. Her friends expect her to get married, her adoptive parents expect it and more importantly, she expects it of herself – but will her conscience allow it?
From a time when marriage was a socio-economic – rather than just a romantic – decision, Just to Get Married asks how we can have a marriage of equals when the genders are unequal.
Written by actress, journalist, playwright and suffragette Cicely Hamilton, and first produced at the Little Theatre in London in 1910, Just to Get Married was last produced in the UK at Birmingham Rep in 1918, and is directed by Melissa Dunne, founder of the acclaimed gender blind play festival XY
The run will be accompanied by the FINBOROUGHFORUM, an informal post-show discussion and a space for the audience to share their response to the performance, on Wednesday 2 August. The event is free to ticketholders for that evening’s performance of the play. FINBOROUGHFORUM events will all be Twitter friendly with live tweets from @FinboroughForum. Using the hashtag #finfor.
JUST TO GET MARRIED POST-SHOW DISCUSSION
Wednesday 2 August
Bechdel Theatre pop-up discussion. An informal post-show discussion hosted by Beth Watson of Bechdel Theatre, with a selection of the cast and the director of Just To Get Married.