The greatest dilemma of our age is also the hardest to write about. When the consequences of global heating seem so inescapable, what chance the dramatist of finding an ending? Not just a happy one – any ending at all.
Gamely, Daisy Hall has a go at it with this finalist from the 2023 Women’s prize for playwriting, produced by Atticist, Ellie Keel and Hampstead theatre. Its setting is the steeple of a church in rural Oxfordshire, where the names of the villages sound ancient, even mythic. It gives Bellringers the atmosphere of a timeless fairytale.
