Come and join our series of monthly play readings. Play readings are open to all (members and non-members) and present an excellent opportunity to read new scripts together, considering their potential for future productions.

NEXT PLAY READING - TUESDAY 14TH MAY 2024

Lucy Kirkwood's Mosquitoes is a play about families and particle physics. The play revolves around the difficult relationship between two sisters: Alice and Jenny (age 41 and 39 respectively at the start of the play). Alice is a scientist based in Geneva, working on the Large Hadron Collider as it starts up in 2008, and is embarking on the most exciting work of her life, searching for the Higgs Boson particle. Her clever, if disturbed, son Luke is fiercely critical of the environmental consequences of his mother’s work. Jenny, meanwhile, lives in Luton, sells medical insurance, looks after their aged mum, Karen, and loses a baby daughter after scare stories about the MMR vaccine. When tragedy throws them together, the collision threatens them all with chaos. 

When: Tuesday 14th May 2024, 7:30pm 

Where: Werrington Leisure Centre, Staniland Way, Peterborough PE4 6JT (car parking is available in the nearby Tesco car park)

Copies of the script will be provided. 

Whilst we invite all to play readings, due to licencing these events require taking up a membership or friendship of Peterborough Mask Theatre – available on the night.