Women’s Theatre in the 1970s and 80s
Posted on November 7, 2009
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Unfinished Histories: Phase 1: Women’s Theatre in the 1970s and 80s
Funded by Unity Theatre Trust and the Lipman-Miliband Trust, with support from the Society for Theatre Research. Launch events funded by Awards for All.
This project, in conjunction with In Tandem TC, has recorded an initial series of extensive (up to 5 hour) interviews on audio and video of women active in the women’s theatre movement. Copies of these have been lodged with major libraries and theatre collections:
* National Sound Archive at the British Library
* V&A Theatre Collections
* Bristol University Drama Collections
We have recorded interviews with:
* Sheila Allen (Actress, lead performer in Jane Arden’s Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven and Pam Gems’s Queen Christina)
* Jude Alderson (Artistic Director, Sadista Sisters)
* Kate Crutchley (director, theatre programmer at Oval House throughout the 1980s)
* Anne Engel (company member, performer with Women’s Theatre Group, Mrs Worthington’s Daughters)
* Michele Frankel (founder Director Beryl and the Perils – see below)
* Bryony Lavery (writer with Les Oeufs Malades, Female Trouble, Unicorn, WTG, Monstrous Regiment etc)
* Ruth Mackenzie (company member, writer with Moving Parts)
* Natasha Morgan (writer, director, performer with That’s Not It, performer with The People Show)
* Julie Parker (performer with Gay Sweatshop, Artistic Director The Drill Hall)
* Eileen Pollock (performer, writer with Belt and Braces, Bloomers, Camouflage)
* Jacqueline Rudet (writer, director, performer with Imani-Faith, writer for Black Theatre Co-op, Royal Court)
* Adele Saleem (now Salem) ( performer, writer including with Women’s Theatre Group, Hard Corps)
* Lily Susan Todd (director including with Monstrous Regiment)
* Michelene Wandor (writer with Women’s Theatre Group, Gay Sweatshop, Mrs Worthington’s Daughters etc., anthologist and historian of women’s theatre movement)
Available to order
Women Theatre in the 1970s and 1980s: Recollections and Reflections: a 46 minute CD of extracts from the audio interviews. Copies: £10 (£5 postage and handling, plus £5 donation. If you would like to make a larger donation this will support us in making recordings for Phase 2).
Copies can be ordered from: In Tandem TC, 41a Barnsbury Street, London N1 1PW
Phone: 020 7359 7848
Email: intantc@aol.com
See also: Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven – 40th Anniversary Reading – 8th November 2009
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