Roberta Taylor on stage in The Baroness

Roberta Taylor, best known to fans of The Bill as Inspector Gina Gold, stars in the UK Premiere of Dogstar Theatre Company's production of The Baroness - Karen Blixen's Final Affair.

In 1948, at the age of 62, Karen Blixen (Isak Dinesen), writer of Out of Africa, met the 29-year-old poet, Thorkild Bjørnvig. He was newly married and had recently made his successful publishing debut. The two shared a powerful, dangerous and intimate friendship, their pact, which lasted six years before falling apart.

The Baroness is Thor Bjorn Krebs’s provocative, free interpretation of the relationship between Blixen and Bjornvig, a relationship which is both platonic and sexually charged, and which questions and challenges the role and nature of the artist.  

 A smash-hit in Denmark, this intense, brilliantly written play features the wonderful  Roberta Taylor (Eastenders, The Bill) as Blixen, Ewan Donald as Bjornvig and Romana Abercromby as Benedicte Jensen and is directed by Matthew Zajac, creator and performer of The Tailor of Inverness, with music by Aidan O’Rourke of Lau.
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Tour details:
September

Fri 13 Birnam Arts Centre 7.30pm 01350 727674 birnamarts.com

Sat 14 Tullynessle Hall, Alford 01975 564336 neatshows.org

Tue 17 Resolis Memorial Hall, Balblair, E. Ross 01381 610204 resoliscommunityarts.com

Wed 18 Universal Hall, Findhorn 7.30pm   01309 690110 findhorn.org/universalhall/info

Thu 19 Gordonstoun School, by Elgin

Fri 20 & Sat 21 Eden Court, Inverness 01463 234234 eden-court.co.uk   

Tue 24  Mull Theatre, Druimfin, Tobermory 7.30pm 01688 302828 mulltheatre.com

Wed 25 Craignish Village Hall, Ardfern, Argyll 7.30pm 01852 500746  craignishvillagehall.org.uk

Thu 26 Eastgate Theatre, Peebles 7.30pm  01721 725777 eastgatearts.com

Fri 27 & Sat 28, Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 7.30pm 0131 2281404 traverse.co.uk