Bloody Wimmin' (NHB Modern Plays) E-Book

Lucy Kirkwood

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2015

Beschreibung

The protests at Greenham Common were a political landmark of the eighties. But how much did Greenham impact on the fight for nuclear disarmament, the progress of the women's movement and the culture of protest itself? From the author of Chimerica, first staged at the Tricycle Theatre in 2010 as part of the Women, Power and Politics season. 'hilarious' - Whatsonstage.com

Leseprobe

Lucy Kirkwood

BLOODY WIMMIN

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

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Contents

Title Page

Introduction by Indhu Rubasingham

Original Production

Characters

Bloody WimminLucy Kirkwood

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Introduction

Indhu Rubasingham

Women, Power and Politics is a season of nine exciting new plays presented in two parts, Then and Now. Creating it has been an important journey where theatre is reflecting, amongst other things, the immediate politics of today. This journey started a year ago.

In May 2009 the Tricycle had just opened The Great Game: Afghanistan. I co-directed it with Nick Kent, who produced the project at the Tricycle in North London, where he is the Artistic Director. It was a day-long event featuring a series of twelve new plays looking at Afghan history from the first Anglo-Afghan War up to the present day. It was proving to be a huge success and a very special production. Two days after the press ‘day’, whilst I was lying in a darkened room recovering from this enormous endeavour, Nick called me to say that he had a great idea he wanted to discuss. I was amazed by his unstoppable energy. He had just read an article in where there was a picture of David Cameron presiding over the then Shadow Cabinet, which consisted entirely of (white) men. The article was discussing where the women were in the Tory Party. Inspired by this, Nick offered me the opportunity to direct and produce a project looking at and titled on a similar template to .