Screenwriter
There was a survey completed in 2013 which shows shocking inequalities between the opportunities and successes of women playwrights compared to men. I see the statistics as a call to arms, we as a diverse group of women theatre writers need to challenge the status quo as indicated below. in the 21st Century, inequality is … Read more
Last night I went to see Caryl Churchill’s linked plays Glass.Kill.Bluebeard.Imp at the packed Royal Court Theatre. The plays were rich, formally inventive and evocative, but that’s what I expect from all her plays. As a whole, they riffed on myth and legends of violence, superstition, and female rage. Between the first three plays, a … Read more
https://youtu.be/t7Uil_DFLV4 Lynn Nottages’ award winning play was based on interviews with the community in Reading Pensylvania, whose livelihoods were devasted when the plant closed. The play is a an excoriating look at the lives of eight characters, and explores how under Bush, unionised workers who had worked their whole adult lives there, were shut out … Read more
I saw Anna Jordan’s witty two hander Pop Music at The Old Market in Hove . The play takes place at the wedding of the friends of two singletons and through the pop music of the wedding dj they individually remember key moments of their lives – the woman’s school disco, first love song, road … Read more