Gainsborough and The Modern Woman @ The Quay Theatre
Fri 13 May
|The Quay Theatre
A New Play by Peppy Barlow & Sally Wilden - presented by Woven Theatre previews at The Quay Theatre, Sudbury. Gainsborough's Birthplace. In 1760, Gainsborough painted a portrait of Ann Ford, which took his world by storm.
Time & Location
13 May 2022, 19:30 – 21:30
The Quay Theatre, Quay House, 6 Quay Ln, Sudbury CO10 2AN, UK
About the Event
Gainsborough and the Modern Woman BUY TICKETS - quaysudbury.comTickets: £13 / £10 concession
In 1760, not long after Gainsborough had moved his family to Bath, he painted a portrait of an extraordinary young woman, Ann Ford, as a way of advertising his trade.
Ann was a talented musician. She was twice arrested by her father to prevent her performing in public but went on to earn £1500 (about £299,000 in today’s money) and made herself an independent woman.
The play is about the making of this painting and the relationship between painter and subject. There are all kinds of local connections – notably with Gainsborough’s birthplace in Sudbury where his family worked in cloth. For this production, two of Sudbury’s present day silk weavers, Stephen Walters and Richard Humphries, are providing the silk for the dress and having it specially woven to match the design in the portrait. This will coincide…