In November 2025 Lord Denney's Players' thirteenth production, Fair Em, The Miller's Daughter of Manchester (c. 1590) offered Columbus audiences secret identities, unwanted suitors, the Norman Conquest, grain to mill – what’s a Northern lass in love to do? The tenuous but no less tantalizing possibility of Shakespearean authorship has dominated what little critical and editorial attention Fair Em has received, but Fair Em has plenty to offer modern audiences: not only a witty and sizable female title role, but also critical concerns that speak to our era (e.g., gender, class, and autonomy; the body and identity; region and nation; history and myth; national security and good government).
This film of the LDP production, produced by the ASC MarCom Studio, makes this rarely produced play accessible to all.
Join cast and crew of the production for pizza and the premiere screening — all are welcome!
Can't make it to the premiere event? That's okay: you can catch the premiere on YouTube wherever you are, or watch it after the fact!