Selected scenes from '1066: Restitched'

Who gets to tell the story of 1066? See three scenes from a new play that unpicks and restitches English identity. Help stage the full play.

About this Event"They asked me by what right I occupy this house: “Twenty years”. They asked again: “None”.You know the story, its in this box – Hastings, Arrow in the Eye, King Harold dead beneath a picture of his own defeat. The simple version. This is less certain."Join us for an evening with three live excerpts from 1066: Restitched, a new play by Peter Barrett, directed by Sam Smithson.

About the play:1086, a generation after the Battle of Hastings. Rosalind, a former servant of the Godwinson household, has until morning to leave her home; the Crown is seizing it against unpaid tax, along with four boxes of papers she has kept. As she opens them throughout the evening, her memory of living through 1066 unravels.

Edward the Confessor dies without an heir. Harold Godwinson takes the throne. His right-hand man, Merrick, works to secure the new regi