The Sweet Science Of Bruising

Composer & sound designer

The Egg, Theatre Royal Bath

A Bath Theatre Academy Production

Director - Julia Head

Writer -  Joy Wilkinson

Associate Director - Krista Matthews

Lighting Design - Joe Price

Set & Costume Design - Cat Fuller

Production images - Chelsey Cliff



In the fierce underbelly of London’s boxing scene, surrounded by smoke, bowler-hats and bare-knuckle boys, four women controlled by men and constrained by corsets find an unexpected
freedom in the ropes of the boxing ring.

The Sweet Science of Bruising is Wilkinson’s bold exploration of suffrage and silence, of politics and power and of flight and fight.