An unsure artist, incongruent in high-class society, and a young bride, delivered to a new city, are thrown together to create something beautiful for the people that control them. What they end up producing is a delicate all-consuming relationship that will prove to be the most important of their lives. Inspired by the friendship between famed Renaissance painter Sandro Botticelli and his model and muse Simonetta Vespucci. Their story is told through vignettes of the brief time they spend together in the artist’s studio before the deadly poison of the outside seeps in through cracks in the door.

Created, Written and Directed by I Abby Greenhalgh
Creative Consultant I Julia Kennerly

Executive Produced by I Alannah O’Hare
Produced by I Jasmine Starbuck

Thanks to I Durham University Classical Theatre Company, Durham University Performing Arts, Suffragette Theatre Company