Olivia Post as
Darwin’s Cleaner
written and directed by Saskia Wesnigk-Wood

3 performances at Brighton’s Unitarian Church, May 23. and 25. at 3pm, May 24. at 7pm.

Imagine what a woman’s life was like if she was born in 1809 as a servant’s daughter. They call her Hen and decide, as she is ‘merely a girl’, she will at least be useful. But then… there is another child born that day, in the same house, and he is the master’s son: the extraordinary Charles Darwin!

Behind a great man, as the saying goes, stands a great woman – why not a great servant? Hen was there from the start, Charles’s playmate and friend, observing his shenanigans as a wayward youngster, eventually becoming his maid, assistant and family factotum.

We meet Hen when she has had enough of the mess and the carcasses, the flesh eating plants and the pinned butterflies. A woman can only put up with so much, and life has thrown a lot at our resilient and loving Henrietta Brown. Watch Hen dishing the dirt on the Darwins and finding her own way as the world for Victorian women begins to change.

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various dates and times MAY 4th – JUNE 1st 2025 – Brighton Fringe – Unitarian Church

https://www.brightonfringe.org/events/the-angel-of-death-will-see-you-now/

After a bungled mugging leaves him teetering on the brink of the great beyond, a hapless teacher finds himself face-to-face with the Angel of Death – a quizmaster with a twisted sense of humour, and our teacher’s fate is the grand prize. The catch? The audience is part of the game. Can you help him outwit the Angel and escape the mysterious allure of Death’s door?

Brighton’s very own rock opera trailblazers, Trim Tab Productions, return to the Fringe with their third and most audacious show yet. Combining electrifying live music, razor-sharp dark comedy and an unmissable dose of interactive silliness, this is a theatrical experience like no other. Get ready to laugh, quiz, and rock out as though your life depends on it – because it very well might…

Directed by Saskia Wesnigk-Wood