Monstrous Regiment

Connections

Connections Author name Excerpt
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Michelene Wandor
The work deals with theatre and sexual politics since 1968, with an emphasis on alternative theatre groups such as the Women's Theatre Group , Gay Sweatshop , and Monstrous Regiment . The original version considers...
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
She followed this with Calamity, 1984, again for Monstrous Regiment but performed in London with live music, in which a cast of one woman and one man present a rescripting of Calamity Jane and...
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
This play was commissioned by Monstrous Regiment as a co-production with Birmingham Repertory Company , but turned out quite differently from what the commission had specified. After Birmingham it showed at the Drill Hall in...
Textual Production Rose Tremain
In 1981 the feminist theatre company Monstrous Regiment toured with a play, Yoga Class, which they had commissioned from RT .
Textual Production Caryl Churchill
CC describes 1976 as a watershed year.
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen.
xii
After working alone for many years, she embarked on collaborative projects with two radical theatre companies: Monstrous Regiment and Joint Stock .
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen.
xii
CC found these collaborations...
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, BLrescripted the novel by Anita Loos for the women's theatre group Monstrous Regiment .
Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Textual Production Bryony Lavery
BL collaborated with Caryl Churchill and Michelene Wandor in a cabaret entitled Floorshow, written for Monstrous Regiment .
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen.
xii
Textual Features Bryony Lavery
Floorshow was a deliberate move into the male area of cabaret (more innovative at that time than might be realised today).
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books.
xxxix
Time Gentlemen Please set out to handle the tricky topics of sex and...
Reception Bryony Lavery
It proved one of Monstrous Regiment 's greatest successes, drawing capacity audiences. At the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow they had to open the gallery to increase the seating.
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books.
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Author summary Claire Luckham
Claire Luckham's career as a playwright was launched in 1976, when the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment selected Scum (a play on which she and her husband collaborated) to open their first season. Her plays...
Author summary Bryony Lavery
In a career spanning nearly forty years of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, the highly prolific BL has seen over sixty of her plays and other entertainments staged, mostly in London. She has...
politics Caryl Churchill
CC is a feminist in her life as well as in her writings. She first met the members of the Monstrous Regiment on a demonstration in support of the National Abortion Campaign .
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books.
xxxvi
Performance of text Claire Luckham
The feminist theatre troupe Monstrous Regiment launched its first season with Scum: Death, Destruction and Dirty Washing, a play collaboratively written by CL , her husband, Chris Bond , and the company.
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books.
xxxvi, xiii
Llewellyn-Jones, Margaret. “Claiming a Space: 1969-78”. British and Irish Women Dramatists Since 1958: A Critical Handbook, edited by Trevor Griffiths and Margaret Llewellyn-Jones, Open University Press, pp. 26-46.
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Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford.
Performance of text Caryl Churchill
Vinegar Tom, CC 's play about witches with no witches in it,
Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen.
130
written for the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment , opened at the Humberside Theatre in Hull.
Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press.
109
Performance of text Michelene Wandor
The feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment performed Floorshow, a cabaret about women and work by MW , Caryl Churchill , and Bryony Lavery .
Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/.

Timeline

14 August 1975: The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company was...

Women writers item

14 August 1975

The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company was founded in London by female and male performers, many of whom had already worked with the Women's Street Theatre Company or the Women's Theatre Company .

January 1976: The Monstrous Regiment theatre company pointed...

Building item

January 1976

The Monstrous Regiment theatre company pointed out in a grant application that the annual average earnings for members of Equity (the British performers' union) were £1031 and £538 according to gender.

1982: This year two works of Melissa Murray were...

Women writers item

1982

This year two works of Melissa Murray were performed: The Admission, an apparently unpublished radio play, and The Execution, a play produced by Monstrous Regiment .

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