Progress, a new play by Joanna Carrick

It's the summer of 1561. Among the bustling Tudor streets the countdown is on to transform the town just days before the visit of a lifetime – when Queen Elizabeth I will arrive in Ipswich on a "Progress", heralding a new dawn of hope and tolerance.

Peter Moone, a tailor, is rehearsing a group of locals into a play to be performed for the Queen. Court intrigue, scandal and passion, set against the harsh backdrop of the story of the Ipswich martyrs and all based on factual accounts of real events, creates a gripping story both as tragic and comic as true life itself. 'Progress' is a play about Ipswich, for anyone who would like to know why our town really is an extraordinary place.

Specially written for the opening of The Avenue, Progress is the eagerly awaited follow up to Joanna Carrick's critically acclaimed play 'Fallen In Love' which followed the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn, performed to audiences in Ipswich and at The Tower of London in 2013, which the Telegraph hailed as "a real coup" adding "fail to answer this summons to the Tower at your peril".

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