Monstrous Regiment

CC chose the subject in consultation with Monstrous Regiment , whose members she had met after a pro-abortion march and to whom she mentioned her hoard of witchcraft material amassed while working on Light Shining...

CC 's collaboration with Monstrous Regiment continued through the summer of 1977, when she participated in their cabaret Floorshow, along with Michelene Wandor and Bryony Lavery .

Vinegar Tom, CC 's play about witches with no witches in it, written for the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment , opened at the Humberside Theatre in Hull.

Two other theatre groups that profoundly influenced her career were the socialist-feminist Monstrous Regiment and the fringe collective Joint Stock , both of whom she began working with in 1976. From this...

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 .

CC describes 1976 as a watershed year. After working alone for many years, she embarked on collaborative projects with two radical theatre companies: Monstrous Regiment and Joint Stock .CC found these collaborations...

As both a sculptor and a writer, AFgot involved in the beginnings of an innovative, radical theatre group, Welfare State , in 1968, the year it was founded. The following year she discovered...

In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, BLrescripted the novel by Anita Loos for the women's theatre group Monstrous Regiment .

BL collaborated with Caryl Churchill and Michelene Wandor in a cabaret entitled Floorshow, written for Monstrous Regiment .

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...

Another group she founded was the four-woman Female Trouble of 1981-2, for the performance of unscripted reviews. She has written and acted for many other groups, including Monstrous Regiment , Dramatrix , Theatre Centre (founded...

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.

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...

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...

Floorshow was a deliberate move into the male area of cabaret (more innovative at that time than might be realised today).Time Gentlemen Please set out to handle the tricky topics of sex and...