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Monstrous Regiment
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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
. |
| 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 | Rose Tremain | In 1981 the feminist theatre company Monstrous Regiment
toured with a play, Yoga Class, which they had commissioned from RT
. |
| Fictionalization | Florence Nightingale | In 1984 the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment
celebrated the life of FN
in a play devised by Chris Bowler
and entitled Enslaved by Dreams. Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books. lxii |
| 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. 28 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. |
| 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... |
| 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 |
| 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... |
| Occupation | Bryony Lavery | 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... |
| 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. l |
| 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 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 |
| 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. |
| Occupation | Alison Fell | 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. Fell, Alison. “Rebel with a Cause”. Truth, Dare or Promise: Girls Growing Up in the Fifties, edited by Liz Heron, Virago, pp. 11-25. 24 |
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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