As a student, SK
wanted to be an actor, then a theatre director. Apart from the productions already mentioned at school and at Bristol University, she directed student productions of Chekhov's The Bear (at Soho Poly
Performance of text
Michelene Wandor
MW
's realist drama about women on the verge of retirement, The Old Wives' Tale, was first performed at the Soho Poly Theatre Club
in London.
Wandor, Michelene. Five Plays. Journeyman, 1984.
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Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume One. Methuen, 1982.
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Performance of text
Sue Townsend
ST
's second play, Womberang, written with the writers' group at the Phoenix Arts Centre
in Leicester, was produced at the Soho Poly
in London.
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, 1990.
“Playwrights. Sue Townsend”. doollee.com.
Performance of text
Pam Gems
A comicplay by PG
, The Project (later titled Loving Women), was first presented at the Soho Poly
theatre as a lunchtime production.
Wandor, Michelene, editor. Plays by Women: Volume Three. Methuen, 1984.
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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, 2000, pp. 157-73.
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, 2000, pp. 157-73.