“The Amiable Courtship of Miz Venus and Wild Bill - 197”. Sphinx Theatre Company Archive: Productions. 1970s.
Almost Free Theatre
Connections
| Connections | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Performance of text | Pam Gems | As part of a London Women's Theatre Festival, the Almost Free Theatre
produced PG
's play The Amiable Courtship of Miz Venus and Wild Bill. Wandor, Michelene. Post-War British Drama: Looking Back in Gender. Routledge. 126 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 159 Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen. 49 Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-73. 171 |
| Occupation | Pam Gems | In London in the 1970s, PG
became involved in several women's theatre collectives. With the Women's Theatre Group
she helped to organize a season of plays by women staged at the Almost Free Theatre
... |
| Performance of text | Pam Gems | Two monologues by PG
, My Warren and After Birthday (Sandra), were performed at the Almost Free Theatre
in London in 1973. Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen. 49 Aston, Elaine. “Pam Gems: Body Politics and Biography”. The Cambridge Companion to Modern British Women Playwrights, edited by Elaine Aston and Janelle Reinelt, Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-73. 171 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press. 158 |
| Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | MW
's Scissors, a comedy about a Jewish family, opened at the Almost Free Theatre
in London. Wandor, Michelene. Five Plays. Journeyman. 92 Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume One. Methuen. 137 |
| Performance of text | Michelene Wandor | Also in 1973, before October, MW
had a play produced as part of a season by women writers hosted by the Almost Free Theatre
in London. All of the plays were directed and stage-managed... |
Timeline
About October 1973: The Women's Theatre Group (still in being...
Women writers item
About October 1973
The Women's Theatre Group
(still in being as the Sphinx Theatre Company
) was founded in London as a feminist and socialist theatre group; its twin organization the Women's Theatre Company
proved short-lived.
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