Saturday 15th November 2025
Venue: Chawton House
Doors: 6.30pm | Performance start: 7pm
Join us in the Great Hall for Fly Me! Mrs Sage and the Mile High Club, the hilarious and daring true story of the first Englishwoman to fly.
Actress Letitia Sage brought va-va-voom to the balloon when she became the first Englishwoman to fly in 1785. With more hilarious twists than a hit farce, a Georgian playwright could not have given the Mrs Sage balloon show a better plot. Did the daredevil diva really start the Mile High Club? Join biographer Sharon Wright and actress Denise Rocard as Mrs Sage to find out! Suitable for age 16+
About the Writer
Sharon Wright is a London-based journalist, author and playwright. Sheis author of The Lost History of the Lady Aeronauts (Pen & Sword, 2018) and Mother of the Brontës: The Life of Maria Branwell (Pen & Sword, 2019). She is also the co-author with Ann Dinsdale of Let Me In: The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar (Great Northern Books, 2025). She was responsible for correcting the misspelled plaque to the Brontës in Poets’ Corner, Westminster Abbey, in 2024.
About the Actress
Denise Rocard developed her interest in drama when she was a teenager and attended the Guildhall school of music and Drama and the Young Vic Youth Theatre where plays included ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and Lorca’s ‘Blood Wedding’.
Since then she has worked with The Cambridge Shakespeare Company, Out of the Blue Productions, Tacit Theatre and Golden Egg Productions among others.
In the last few years favourite roles have been Dorine in ‘Tartuffe’ and Ursula in ‘Much Ado about Nothing’ which was staged in Los Angeles.
Tickets: £15 (includes a glass of fizz/soft drink)
Notes on performance
– Doors open at 6.30pm; the performance will begin at 7pm.
– The performance will take place inside Chawton House. Please come to the Front Door for entry.
Access
Accessible parking is available in the staff car park at the top of the drive. To reserve an accessible space, or for further information, please call 01420 541010.
Only assistance dogs are permitted at this performance.