Wordsmithery*

Aliens... obsessive mothers... a sea monster and a psycho killer!

 

Maid in Kent, our show at Lounge on the Farm featured five of our most popular short plays, all written by Kentish authors. The plays chosen have aliens, a sea monster, a psycho-killer, a date that goes horribly wrong and a pair of women whose interest in celebrity cookware goes too far. 

 

We chose these five plays as they are all a lot of fun and showcase a range of styles and topics. One of the things that women’s writing is often accused of is being ‘domestic’; these five varied pieces showed the audience that’s really not the case. They have also all been written by Kent-based playwrights. For Lounge on the Farm, we wanted this local connection, as the first woman to earn a living from writing, the playwright Aphra Behn, was born near Canterbury.