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Script Salon: Punching Judy

Sunday, April 12, 2026
7:30pm to 9:30pm

Holy Trinity Anglican Church

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April
12

Join us for a reading of Punching Judy - Ladies Boxing in 18 Easy Steps By Trevor Schmidt

A completely speculative history of real-life figure Elizabeth Wilkinson, an English bare-knuckle boxer and one of the most famous prizefighters of the 18th century. During her decade-long career, she was often described as a "Championess" who fought 45 bouts without defeat. After her last documented fights in 1733, no further information about her life can be found in the historical record. References to Wilkinson became increasingly rare and negative in the Victorian era of stricter redefinition of gender roles. Some writers portrayed Wilkinson as a historical curiosity, while others derided her as evidence of barbarism.

Directed by John Hudson and read by Vance Avery, Collin Doyle, Sarah Ormandy and Nicole St. Martin.

Trevor Schmidt has been the Artistic Director of Northern Light Theatre for the past 23 years, and involved with NLT for the past 31 years as a performer, director, designer, and playwright, and is a multiple Sterling award winner in performance, director, and playwriting categories. His one-woman Gothic thriller We Had a Girl Before You opened the season in its American premiere at the Greater Boston Stage Company. He was awarded Outstanding Choreography for 6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won at the Betty Mitchell Theatre Awards in Calgary, and the DIALOG Award for Excellence in Artistic Direction as part of the Mayor's Evening for the Arts in Edmonton. He was shortlisted for the Gwen Pharis Ringwood Award (Alberta Literary Awards) for Two-Headed/Half-Hearted, a musical he wrote with composer Kaeley Jade Wiebe. He was most recently honoured at the AMPIAs for Outstanding Performance in a Lead Role- Male or Non-Binary for the film Me and Mr. Right (Northern Gateway Productions).

Holy Trinity Anglican Church

Upper Arts Space

10037 84 Avenue NW
Edmonton, AB, T6E 2G6