Stoke Newington

A journey through poetry, performance, and music… into rebirth. Every girl follows their fears into a dark forest, a grand tour of rebirth… All the greatest destinations involve love and violence… “A woman will return looking for the girl she was” (Louise Glück)… The White Lily Society presents… the Gothic Heroine’s Journey. Inviting performers and audience alike to join into a descent through bliss, betrayal, awakening, reckoning, and finally, rebirth. Through this journey in three acts, inspired by Persephone and the countless gothic maidens within our hearts, this night will honour the endurance, friendship, and agency we, as gothic maidens ourselves, […]