The Meeting

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Teach me the language of your hands.

Rachel has been the voice for her deaf mother since she was born, but now she is restless to be heard for herself. Together, they have found sanctuary in a Quaker community that reveres silence. But the world is at war and it is becoming ever harder to live in Friendship. When a stranger arrives in their midst, their fragile peace is set to shatter.

The Meeting by Charlotte Jones premiered at Chichester Festival Theatre in July 2018.

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Charlotte Jones has written six stage plays: Airswimming, In Flame, Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis, Humble Boy, The Dark and The Lightning Play. She won the Critics' Circle Most Promising Playwright award 1999. Martha, Josie and the Chinese Elvis won the Pearson TV Best New Play Award and Manchester Evening News Best New Play Award 1999. Humble Boy won the Critics' Circle Best New Play 2001, Susan Smith Blackburn Award, People's Choice Best New Play 2001 and was nominated for an Olivier award and a Drama Desk Award. It ran at the National Theatre and in the West End and has since been produced all over the world. She also she wrote the book for Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical of Wilkie Collins' novel The Woman in White (lyrics by David Zippel) which ran in the West End and on Broadway. She has also written for extensively for TV, Film and Radio.