World Premiere
Shared Experience/Sherman Cymru

SPEECHLESS

By Linda Brogan and Polly Teale. Based on The Silent Twins by Marjorie Wallace

An extraordinary story of two girls’ struggle to be heard...
Shared Experience (Jane Eyre, War and Peace, The Glass
Menagerie) and Sherman Cymru (Deep Cut – Fringe First/
Herald Angel/Amnesty International award-winners) join
forces to portray the extraordinary story of identical twins
June and Jennifer Gibbons. Refusing to speak to adults, the
twins communicate in their own private language, their
only relationship being their intense and turbulent bond
with each other.

Inspired by Marjorie Wallace’s best-selling book The Silent
Twins, Polly Teale and Linda Brogan’s powerful new play
is an astonishing and moving portrayal of the secret world
of a very special but ultimately destructive alliance
between two sisters.

Speechless is directed and co-written by the Artistic
Director of Shared Experience, Polly Teale. Celebrated
for her potent visual and imaginative style, she won the
Evening Standard Award for Best Director for her own play
After Mrs Rochester, which also won the Time Out Award
for Best West End Production.

Contains some scenes of a sexual nature