Legacy

Legacy is a timely new play from award-winning writer Matt Grinter and directed by Lee Lyford (The Snow Queen, Elephant Man, Bristol Old Vic), and performed across two venues at the egg theatre. Set in an apparently leafy village, the community gathers to debate their complicated history, the thorny dilemma of what's in a name, and whether they should pin their colours to the philanthropic acts of a slave trader? People talk passionately about forgiveness, responsibility, morality and community, and the need to speak out against a wrong that happened before they were born. Quietly however, something begins to happen to them, something that each of them tries their best to ignore...