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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. |
Occupation | Caryl Churchill | 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. Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 107-8 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press. 103 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge. 144-5 |
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 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Caryl Churchill | 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... |
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 |
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