The Bear / The Proposal

Happy wife, happy life?

With mortgages to pay and sickly fathers to care for, Chekhov’s heroines must coolly weigh up the practical benefits of marriage over their disgust for their suitors.

Our usual assumptions about love and marriage unravel in this bold new production by Genesis Award winner Lucy J Skilbeck.

A gender fierce company of queer and trans performers take on two of Chekhov’s wryest comedies in versions by Michael Frayn.