Anthony Weigh – författare

A remote valley. An unspeakable crime. A prominent architect is commissioned to design a memorial. On the evening of its presentation, a blind woman comes out of the rain and into the architect's studio. She is the mother of one of the victims and demands to be heard. Over the next two hours the women do battle over what it means to memorialise the dead, what it means to be a mother and what it means to believe.

Desperate to begin a family, Yerma undertakes a journey of discovery only to uncover a secret held deep within her husband's heart. Haunted by children, Yerma's awakening ends in an unspeakable act. A play which strips bare the raw emotions of women and men, Anthony Weigh's version of Federico Garcia Lorca's Yerma premiered at Hull Truck in October 2011, in a co-production with the Gate Theatre, London.

It's the legendary hot summer of 1959 and while the Cold War rages and America tunes into I Love Lucy, Captain Jack Fox - believed missing in action in the fields of France fifteen years before - is about to be reunited with his family in the Hamptons.But is this really Jack Fox? And if it isn't, who is this man? And why are there twenty-two other families so intent on claiming him as their own?A sparkling comedy of identity, lost and found, based on Jean Anouilh's hit 1937 play, Le Voyageur sans bagage, Anthony Weigh's Welcome Home, Captain Fox! premiered at the Donmar Warehouse, London, in February 2016.