Valediction By Susan Rollins

'To save their love, they lost everything else'

Valediction is the story of the secret love of aristocratic Anne More and notorious love poet John Donne. They broke the rules of class by a clandestine marriage in a time of oppression of women and of faith. Inevitably they were discovered, and paid the price of social defiance in a brutal age. Until Donne betrayed his Catholic heritage, becoming one of the greatest Anglican writers of all time.

But when Anne died at the height of his fame, Donne was inconsolable. In this new play, Susan Rollins shows the devastating cost of mixing love, religion, and ambition.