Clean Break

In her late teens WP planned to become an actor. She abandoned a brief career on stage partly because she found herself being typecast in maternal roles. She sees her work as a writer as...

She is on the board of directors of Clean Break Theatre Company (founded in 1979 by two women in prison). Still flourishing a decade into the twenty-first century, it describes itself as a women's theatre...

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...

The Clean Break Theatre Company began its touring production of SD 's play Head Rot Holiday at the BatterseaArts Centre .

The Clean Break theatre company did a production at the Royal National Theatre of WP 's play Mules, about Jamaican women enlisted as drug smugglers.

Taken by WP was one of a group entitled Charged: Six New Plays performed by Clean Break at the Soho Theatre and published the same year by Nick Hern Books .

Clean Break is a theatre company with social and educational purpose, founded by two women in prison with the aim of using theatre to benefit the lives of women prisoners and former prisoners and to...