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17, 18 & 19 September 2025

The Lost Girls of Highgate Cemetery

A moving and thought-provoking devised new play

At the Chapel at Highgate Cemetery

Ten “fallen women”, the youngest only fourteen years old, lay nameless and forgotten in an unmarked grave in Highgate Cemetery’s West side for over a century. That is, until relatively recently.
Drawing on research, contemporaneous accounts and imagination, we tell the stories of these “Lost Girls”. What was daily life like in “The House of Mercy”, Highgate’s strict penitentiary for fallen women? Christina Rossetti served as a volunteer at the House: could these girls’ stories have been the inspiration for some of her poetry? Were they prostitutes, sinners and hopeless cases, or were they ordinary girls, with teenage hopes and dreams, before hardship befell them? What led them to an ignominious end in a largely forgotten plot of the cemetery? This play reveals compelling lives, tragically cut short by poverty and illness. The girls may be lost to time, but they will now be honoured and not forgotten.

Tickets (including a glass of wine) available from the Highgate Cemetery Website. Click the 'Find Out More' button.

10-13 December 2025

As You Like It

by William Shakespeare

at St Mary's Church, Church End, Hendon , London, NW4 4JT

At the court of Duke Frederick, discord and distrust are endemic. When Rosalind is banished, she runs away to the Forest of Arden joined by her cousin Celia. As the court’s strict rules no longer apply, they explore new identities and find that the forest is a place where the possibilities for romance and relationship are endless. In this ancient community of nature, surprising alliances are forged, curious minds meet, enmity is reconciled, and strangers fall in love.

We that are true lovers run into strange capers. – Act II, scene 4

Cast
Rosalind - Mia Keren Black
Orlando -Edward Smith

At Court

Duke Frederick - Andrew Farrer

Celia - Jessica Curtis

Oliver - Matthew Pert

Touchstone - Sophie Gray Barwick

Second Brother Jaques - Clare Harding

Charles - Adam Baxter

The Forest of Arden

Duchess Senior - Mary Brown

Jaques - Jennie Rich

Amiens - Emily Berry

Ada - Mary Musker

Corin - Lynn Fidler

Silvius - Richard Tinworth

Phebe - Violet Rab

First Lord - Clare Harding

Second Lord - Lynn Fidler

First Page - St Mary’s singers tbc
Second Page - St Mary’s singers tbc

Tickets available in September.

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Last updated: 26 August 2025

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The Lost Girls of Highgate Cemetery

A moving and thought-provoking devised new play