Middle Child Book Club

Through our Theatre Library we often hear people say they want to read more plays but don’t know where to start. Well, fear not, the Middle Child Book Club is here for all of your play-reading needs.

Each month we’ll suggest a brilliant play to read, which you can borrow a copy of from our library, or read here with a cuppa. Then we all get together to talk about what we liked, or didn’t like, about the play, remembering there are no wrong answers and it’s not a test.

We’ll also provide a free lunch or breakfast to go with it! 

Coming up

Sep: Es and Flo by Jennifer Lunn
Oct: Multiple Casualty Incident by Sami Ibrahim
Nov: Untitled Feminist Show by Young Jean Lee

Es and Flo by Jennifer Lunn

Friday 6 September, 10.15-11.45am
(Optional Read Aloud from 9.00-10.15am)

Es and Flo fell fiercely in love in the eighties. They’ve been living as secret lovers ever since. As Es becomes more forgetful around their home, an unexpected carer arrives. Who sent this woman? Why? And can they trust her?

As the outside world comes crashing in, Flo fights to protect the life they’ve built together over forty years behind closed doors. And faces the hardest battle of her life – to hold on to the woman she loves.

Jennifer Lunn’s play Es & Flo is a sharply observed, deeply compassionate drama, coloured with memories of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp. It celebrates an older lesbian relationship, women coming together to fight for what’s right, and the healing power of chosen family.

The play was produced by Wales Millennium Centre, Cardiff, and opened there in April 2023 before moving to Kiln Theatre, London, directed by Susie McKenna. It won the Popcorn Group Writing Award and the Nancy Dean Lesbian Playwriting Award.

A free breakfast will be available alongside the discussion.

RSVP

Copies of Es and Flo will be available to borrow from our Theatre Library in High Street, Hull from Tuesday 13 August. This will be by appointment while building work takes place outside our building. Please email Matthew to arrange to come by.

Dates

Book Club is usually on the first Friday of every month, alongside our Library Talks.

Who can take part

Anybody living and working in Hull at the time of each event.

Address

Bond 31, 42-43 High Street, Hull, HU1 1PS