Name: Nun the Wiser
Start: 2026-02-05T19:30:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-05T21:00:00+00:00
Location: Old Fire Station, Oxford

Torch Theatre Productions Oxford are delighted to return to the Old Fire Station with this funny, frank, and fiercely original one-woman show.
At 26, Triona Adams traded a glittering career as a London theatrical agent for life in an enclosed Benedictine convent. She stayed for a year. Nun The Wiser is her bittersweet and comic account of what happens when a modern, independent woman tries to become a nun and discovers she’s not exactly a natural.
Living with 13 strong-minded women aged between 54 and 100, Triona entered a centuries-old way of life and discovered, sometimes painfully, how modern values, intellect, and spirituality clash with ancient traditions. Amid the silence and discipline, she found moments of tenderness, fleeting laughter, and unexpected friendship.
On a diet of Spam fritters and Dad’s Army, cut off from the world beyond the convent walls, Triona’s story is as funny as it is moving — a unique glimpse into faith, community, and the search for purpose in unlikely places.