The Berwick Tapestry

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2 women in a cage. Berwick. 1306.

An Aristocrat, silenced by law, forbidden to have anyone known to her in attendance.

A Townswoman. Free to speak for the first time in her life.

'I hate all of you'

Both caught up in War, Violence, Destiny. And Kings.

4 years. How to survive?

Shifting loyalties, developing friendships, a historical event brought to life.
The struggle of friendship/the horrors of war/the cruelty of the powerful. Hope must never die. When women support each other, a’thing is possible! Even when cruel men were the masters

Janette Foggo has been an actor for nearly 50 years. Throughout Scotland and the UK with stints in Canada and Sweden as well. Worked with Michael Boyd at The Tron in the 1980s and at Sheffield Crucible touring to Canada on two occasions with The Guid Sisters. Also on his final production Medea with NTS. Has appeared at PPP 8 times in plays by Peter Arnott, Eimi Quinn, Linda Duncan MacLaughlin, Steven Dick, Marcella Evaristi. Worked for many years with Kenny Ireland at Royal Lyceum Theatre. Regular work with Playwrights Studio Scotland in development of new work with writers and directors. Regularly Directs and acts at Stage to Page and has had two workshops there of her own work.

Lifelong fascination with history, women and their invisibility has led to her writing over the past 10 years trying to retrieve those stories. What happens when you put women back in the picture. What do we really know about ourselves? How the past and the present are connected and how we repeat patterns and stories over and over again everywhere.