Agnes Perry-Robinson

2024

Eleanor

Edinburgh Fringe 2024

Ganymede Theatre Company presents a play by Agnes Perry-Robinson. theSpace @ Niddry Street, 2–17 August, 13:20 (50 minutes). The fringe poster prints £12 (£9).

A line of performers in dark coats and hats stand across a stage. One performer in a red dress stands in front of them.

Synopsis

A life lived in the shadows of her father, of her lover and of her own sadness, Eleanor Marx’s light shone fiercely upon fin-de-siècle England, until its untimely extinction. Set against the explosive backdrop of early socialism, Eleanor follows the tragic life of Karl Marx’s youngest daughter, a fierce activist whose life has long been eclipsed in history by the male figures in her life. Revolution, passion and the long-lasting nature of female friendship are explored in this tragedy of a woman scorned. As Eleanor seeks deeper into a depression caused by infidelity and abuse, she is kept afloat by the power of sisterhood and Shakespeare, of theatre and of friendship, and by her own hunger for justice. Eleanor fights tirelessly for the rights of others, whilst being completely helpless in her own salvation.

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Photographs

Photographs: Felix Cave.

  • Edinburgh Fringe poster for Eleanor. A woman in a red dress stands in front of performers in dark coats. The poster bills Ganymede Theatre Company at theSpace @ Niddry Street.
  • Poster for Eleanor that reads Theatre Paradok presents.
  • Performers in dark coats sit and stand across a dim stage.
  • A performer in a dark coat and hat holds a red flower toward another performer.
  • A performer in a pale dress lies in long grass, holding a flower.
  • Two performers sit on a wooden bench, one in a pale dress and one in a dark coat.
  • Two pairs of hands, one holding a small red flower.

Press

Edinburgh Fringe 2024

La Belle Angele, November 2023

  • Corr Blimey

    a love letter to words

    Review by Marina Funcasta, 9 November 2023. The shared document lists this review under the Fringe 2024 heading and does not give the date. The published review is of the November 2023 presentation at La Belle Angele.

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  • Corr Blimey

    Aggie Perry Robinson has written something rare – Eleanor’s script demonstrates a vitality which, despite the plot’s simplicity and length, never grows tiresome.

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  • The Student

    Still at University, Perry-Robinson is a playwright to keep an eye on

    12 November 2023, La Belle Angele. The shared document cuts this sentence off at “eye”. The published review continues “on”. The publication spells the name Agnus Perry-Robinson in the headline.

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Credits

  • Ganymede Theatre Company presents a play by Agnes Perry-Robinson. Read from the Edinburgh Fringe poster.
  • A separate poster in the Drive folder reads Theatre Paradok presents. It is shown with the photographs and is not used as the Fringe billing.

Placeholder. A full cast and creative team has not been published for this production.