Plan-B Theatre
presents
THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY
A world premiere by Janine Sobeck Knighton
Thursday, March 27, 2025 at 7:30pm
March 28th – April 13th, 2025
Studio Theatre at The Rose
Salt Lake City, Utah
On sale: 5/28/2024 at 10am.
THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY explores the early life of Beatrix Potter. And now you’re thinking of Peter Rabbit. As anyone would.
But Beatrix Potter was much more than Peter Rabbit. She was a literary subversive, employing the interplay between the wild and domestic worlds to help her worldwide readership view and interact with the natural world differently.
Much of her story lies in the journal where she sketched the artwork that would become synonymous with her name. But her real story lives in the coded text accompanying those sketches, coded text that chronicles both her discovery and harnessing of her personal power, anathema to Victorian gender norms.
Although much is made historically of how Beatrix’s connection to the vicar Hardwicke Drummond Rawnsley enhanced her writing career, there are also hints that his wife Edith was Beatrix’s true guide. Yet it’s virtually impossible to find information about her. It’s as if she’s been erased.
THE BEATRIX POTTER DEFENSE SOCIETY explores that erasure in an attempt to crack the code of how Edith and Beatrix may have set each other on anarchic-for-the-times journeys of artistic independence.
Playwright: Janine Sobeck Knighton
Actors: TBA
Director: Cheryl Ann Cluff
Costume Designer: Victoria Bird
Lighting Designer: Emma Belnap
Projections Designer: Daniel Charon
Scenic Designer: Janice Chan
Sound Designer: Cheryl Ann Cluff
Stage Manager: Taylor Wallace
Scenic Builder & Electrician: TBA
Saturday, October 26, 2024 at 4pm – ASL interpreted
Saturday, November 2, 2024 at 4pm – sensory friendly
Run time: 70 minutes
Recommended for ages 8 and up. No infants or small children admitted (including those held or seated in laps). All patrons require a ticket regardless of age.
