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Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| 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. |
| 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... |
| 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, 1996. 107-8 Shattock, Joanne. The Oxford Guide to British Women Writers. Oxford University Press, 1993. 103 Todd, Janet, editor. Dictionary of British Women Writers. Routledge, 1989. 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, 1985, 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... |
| Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | Vinegar Tom, CC
's play about witches with no witches in it, Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen, 1985. 130 Demastes, William W., editor. British Playwrights, 1956-1995. Greenwood Press, 1996. 109 |
| 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, 1991. 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, 1993, 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, 1990. |
| Performance of text | Caryl Churchill | CC
's collaboration with Monstrous Regiment
continued through the summer of 1977, when she participated in their cabaret Floorshow, along with Michelene Wandor
and Bryony Lavery
. Churchill, Caryl. Plays: One. Methuen, 1985. xii |
| 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
. Michelene Wandor. http://www.mwandor.co.uk/. |
| politics | Caryl Churchill | CC
is a feminist in her life as well as in her writings. She first met the members of the Monstrous Regiment
on a demonstration in support of the National Abortion Campaign
. Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books, 1991. xxxvi |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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, 1991. l |
| 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, 1991. xxxix |
| 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... |
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
.
“Records of The Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company”. AIM25: London Metropolitan University: Women’s Library.
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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.
Hanna, Gillian, editor. Monstrous Regiment. Four Plays and a Collective Celebration. Nick Hern Books, 1991.
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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
.
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.
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