Proud Haddock’s rediscovery of Tony Harrison’s Square Rounds, the first UK production for nearly 30 years, played at the Finborough Theatre in September 2018.
England, 1915. With all the men fighting at the Front, six women in a munitions factory have taken over the male jobs – until they go one step further, and decide to play some of the inventors of modern technological warfare themselves. In the centenary of the last year of the First World War, an all-female cast played characters ranging from Sir Hiram Maxim, inventor of the machine gun, to the ‘father of chemical warfare’ Fritz Haber – the German Jewish chemist whose work on poison gas would go on to be used to exterminate his own people in the Holocaust just 25 years later.
Credits:
Director: Jimmy Walters
Designer: Daisy Blower
Lighting / Video Designer: Arnim Freiss
Photos courtesy of Proud Haddock Productions