by Anna Reynolds
R&D March 2025
Anna Reynolds’ latest play has received a seed commission from Pursued by a Bear and will be developed by the company in early March 2025.
Reynolds’ punchy, amusing and provocative writing shines a light on challenges faced by women scientists throughout history.
In The Matilda Effect, we meet three women, all called Matilda.
We visit three time zones: then, now, and still developing.
And we encounter a giant amount of mansplaining.
Matilda is a climate pioneer.
Mattie is a geneticist.
Tilly is a physicist.
But every time one of them gets close to the Big Idea, or the Big Prize, Tom, Dick and Harry are there, standing in front of her.
Director
Rosamunde Hutt
Cast
Sarah Agha
Lebogang Fisher
Vissey Elliot Safavi
Thomas Wingfield
Lebogang Fisher
Public Presentations
We’ll be presenting script-in-hand performance readings of an extract from The Matilda Effect on several dates in March 2025.
Saturday 8 March at 5pm
BEAM Hertford
On International Women’s Day and to launch BEAM’s wonderful new Stage Two : an extract presentation followed by Q&A with the Creative Team
Tickets: PAY WHAT YOU FEEL
Event duration: approx. 60 minutes
Monday 10 March at 7.30pm
Omnibus Theatre, Clapham, London
Part of ‘Engine Room’
Tickets: £6
Tuesday 11 March at 7pm
Watford Central Library
Part of Hertfordshire County Council Libraries Service Centenary
Extract presentation followed by Q&A and discussion with the Creative Team and special guest TV producer Irma Inniss (Mr Loverman for BBC)
Tickets: £4
Event duration: approx. 60 minutes
Irma Inniss
Irma is a producer for television, dramaturge and actor.
She has produced MR LOVERMAN, the new Fable Pictures / BBC One series based on the novel by Bernardine Evaristo. Prior to this she was Series Producer on GRIME KIDS for Mammoth Screen/BBC3, she co-produced THEN YOU RUN for Kudos/Sky and produced series three of THE BAY for Tall Story Pictures/ITV. Irma worked as Development Producer for Ged Doherty and Colin Firth’s company, Raindog Films and was Script Executive on TIN STAR for Kudos/Sky, prior to which she spent two years as Producer on HOLBY CITY, having been a script editor on both it and EASTENDERS.