In 1984 BL
edited from the texts written by Calamity Jane (Jane Cannary Hickok
) Letters of Calamity Jane to Her Daughter. (Words from this book were set to music by Libby Larsen
Friends, Associates
Alison Fell
As well as Sue Todd
and Buzz Goodbody
, her friends at this stage (who were also her political associates) included Michèle Roberts
and Marsha Rowe
, with whom her friendships became lifelong.
Roberts, Michèle. Paper Houses. Virago, 2007.
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“Inventory. Acc. 12394. Alison Fell”. National Library of Scotland.
She...
Literary responses
Louise Page
LP
was so moved that she wept as she wrote this play. She later perceived an autobiographical element in it.
Page, Louise. Plays: 1. Methuen, 1997.
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Reviewers were on the whole less impressed than they had previously been by Page...
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.
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The following year she discovered...
Textual Production
Bryony Lavery
BL
has been a scriptwriter with Patrick Barlow
for the two-man satirical company the National Theatre of Brent
. She and Barlow scripted Zulu, 1981, and she, Barlow, and Susan Todd
collaborated on Götterdämmerung...
Textual Production
Deborah Levy
It was her sixth play in two years, another result of her continuing collaboration with director Susan Todd
. It was published the next year, along with Eva and Moses, in Heresies: Eva and...
Timeline
1970: The Women's Street Theatre Company was founded...