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Women's Theatre Group

WOMEN'S THEATRE GROUP

  (1974 - )
Nationality:    British
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Founded in 1974, the WTG changed its name to the Sphinx in 1991 (www.sphinxTheatre.co.uk). the Sphinx was chosen for a number of reasons not least because she was female, classical (developing women's writing) and dangerous (challenging). the aims and motivations of the WTG are important if we are to have a fuller understanding of how they presented sexual politics in their own productions. In a Statement of Aims released in the early 1980s, but encompassing their earlier work as well, they stated that '[o]ur beginnings coincided with and were part of the growing Women's Liberation Movement in Britain. Feminism insisted that links be made between outside and inside the home. . . In our work we attempt to explore these links in terms of the concept 'the personal is political'. (Quoted in Lizbeth Goodman, Contemporary Feminist Theatres: To Each Her Own (Abingdon: Routledge, 1993), p. 63.) By explicitly stating their links to feminism in this way, the WTG ask for their text to be read and seen with reference to this sociology
Rebecca Warren-Heys

Research:    in "British Theatre Companies: 1980-1994" Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, London (2015)>>>

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         24 Hour Plays: Heroines         Amiable Courtship of Miz Venus and Wild Bill, The         Anywhere To Anywhere         As You Like It         Better A Live Pompey Than A Dead Cyril         Black Sail, White Sail         Blame         Boys Will Be Boys         Breaking Through         Careless Sponsored Walks Cost Lives         Chandralekha         Cherished Disappointments In Love         Christmas Without Herods         Coretta, Alice & Jackie         Dear Girl         Double Vision         Every Bit Of It         Fantasia         Fear and Loathing in King's Road         Fixed Deal         Goliath         Hanjo         Her Aching Heart         Holding the Reins         Hot Spot         In Our Way         Instrument For Love         Island         Justice         Katie Johnstone         Lear's Daughters         Little Mermaid, The         Lounge, The         Love And Dissent         Lovefood         Mal de Mere         Memory Of Gold, The         Mind The Gap         Mortal         My Mkinga         My Mother Says I Never Should         New Anatomies         Our Lady         Out! On the Costa Del Trico         Parade of Cats         Pax         Picture Palace         Pinchdice & Co         Playhouse Creatures         Prepper         Pretty Ugly         Question, The         Roaring Girl's Hamlet,the         Roses         Shoot! I Didn't Mean Thaat         Snow Palace, The         Soap Opera         Sweet Dreams         Time Pieces         Trade Secrets         Twelve         Vita And Virginia         Voyage in the Dark         Wedding Story, A         Welcome Home Lottery         What Is the Custom Of Your Grief         Wild Bunch, The         Witchcraze         Work To Role         Yellow         Zerri's Choice

24 Hour Plays: Heroines

Synopsis:
In a showstopping festival finale, a handful of leading playwrights stay up all night to create short plays based on women in the headlines, written, directed and performed within 24 hours - offering a first glimpse of brand new works by some of the hottest names in theatre.

Notes:
part of 24 Hour Plays: Heroines / Women Centre Stage. Playwrights: April de Angelis; Rachel De-Lahay; Rona Munro; Barney Norris; Roy Williams.

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Sphinx Theatre Company

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Amiable Courtship of Miz Venus and Wild Bill, The

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Pam Gems

1st Produced:
Almost-Free Theatre, London    1973

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group, London

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Anywhere To Anywhere

Synopsis:
Women in billowing skirts floating to the ground with parachutes? Rich, glamorous ladies seeking publicity? Hardly, but this was the image that the popular press enjoyed painting of the first women pilots ANYWHERE TO ANYWHERE is a musical documentary based on interviews with the women who flew the planes. It is about the difficulties they had in being accepted as pilots, the prejudice they suffered and the extreme physical hardships they endured. But ANYWHERE TO ANYWHERE is also a celebration of the women who for the first time had access to exciting work, the pure exhilaration they experienced in flying different types of planes and the fact that they were trail blazers for those who were to come after them.... "The example set there will give other women a courage to do those things which they have not in the past considered open to them.

Notes:
written by Joyce Holliday

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Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group, London

1st Published:
in "Griffin, Gabriele & Aston, Elaine (ed.), Herstory Vol.1: Plays By Women For Women" Sheffield Academy, 1991   -

Music:
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Genre:
Musical Documentary

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As You Like It

Synopsis:
Written around 1600 and set in two contrasting communities; city and forest. Rosalind and Celia have been banished from Court. In fear of their lives, they disguise themselves and seek sanctuary in the Forest of Arden. Amongst the magical and ancient boughs, Rosalind discovers her exiled father, uncovers various truths about herself and others...and falls helplessly in love. But in this earthly paradise nothing is quite what it seems: men do not always act like men, and women can be anything at all...Uplifting, awe-inspiring and immense fun, Shakespeare's wondrous comedy is a joyous celebration of the liberating power of love and the redeeming spirit of nature.

Notes:
Original Playwright - Shakespeare

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Better A Live Pompey Than A Dead Cyril

Synopsis:
detailed ironic observation of everyday anxieties that characterise Smith's poetry

Notes:
written by Clare McIntyre And Stephanie Nunn; from poems And writings of Stevie Smith

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Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Genre:
musical show

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

Further Reference:
Theatre Record Volume I (1981) Page 87

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Black Sail, White Sail

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Notes:
Original Playwright - Helene Cixous translated by Donald Watson

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Sphinx Theatre Company

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Translation

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Blame

Synopsis:
Who's to blame when a child goes missing on a street at night and turns up dead? Is it solely the abductor, the murderer? What about the parents, or those in loco parentis? and where were the teachers, the social workers, all those who form part of the state apparatus designed to protect children? as its title suggests, Blame, by social worker Judith Jones and journalist Beatrix Campbell, wonders where the buck stops in welfare-state Britain. Motivated by concern about our growing underclass, the authors present the fictional case-study of a tragedy that rings reasonably true, only they fail miserably to produce enough supporting material to back up their - and the characters' - contention that final responsibility rests with those at the top.
Dominic Cavendish, Daily Telegraph

Notes:
written by Beatrix Campbell And Judith Jones

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Sphinx Theatre Company

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Boys Will Be Boys

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Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Future Voices / Women Centre Stage. Written by Charlotte Josephine

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Sphinx Theatre Company

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Breaking Through

Synopsis:
Two female beings from an alternative universe come to try and save the earth, in particular the London underground, from nuclear disaster.

Notes:
music by Stephanie Nunn

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Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group, London

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Genre:
sci fi musical TYA

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Careless Sponsored Walks Cost Lives

Synopsis:
The comedy Careless Sponsored Walks Cost Lives sprang from observing tactics used to press-gang unwitting parents into joining school support groups. Cast includes Natasha Rickman and Shuna Snow.

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Parents and Politics / Women Centre Stage. Written by Karen Featherstone

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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Genre:
comedy

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Chandralekha

Synopsis:
What happens when memories of the past and dreams of the future collide? Sometimes people have no choice but to try and transform the present. . .Chandralekha moves between India's anti-colonial movement in the 1920's and the struggles against British racism in the 1990's - from the court room to the heart of the family. Chandralekha is a mythical Indian figure made flesh - creative, humorous and powerful, she lives out her many lives exploring universal truths about equality, tolerance and freedom.

Notes:
written by Amrit Wilson

1st Produced:
Old Bull Arts Centre London    25 Feb 1994

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  4            Female:  2            Other:  -

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Cherished Disappointments In Love

Synopsis:
Cherished Disappointments in Love is a brilliantly funny, wildly savage and passionately original theatrical roller-coaster ride. a woman of a certain age is in love with Finland's youngest philosopher, Pekka Himanen. He is also loved by an army sergeant major who means to make a man of him. From the country who gave us saunas, Nokia and Mika Hakkinen, Cherished Disappointments in Love is a comic fantasia on love, philosophy and theatre. Shot through with an eroticism that engenders chaos, the time-honoured and eternal differences between male and female are played out upon the stage with wild, highly comic intensity.

Notes:
Version Of Jouko/Juha Turkka Play written by Broyny Lavery

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
Oberon, London, 2001   -

Music:
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Play/Drama

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Christmas Without Herods

Synopsis:
Set in prison in South America. Four women are held without trial, the 5th guards them

Notes:
written by Lisa Evans

1st Produced:
ICA, London >>>    25 Sep 1990

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Music:
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Play/Drama

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Coretta, Alice & Jackie

Synopsis:
Do we use the F word? This play puts the life works and personal experiences of Coretta King, Alice Paul and Jackie Kennedy through the theatrical blender to give us a fascinating and sometimes hair-raising encounter. A heady and entertaining cocktail through which to reflect on where we are, what brought us here, and what we are saying and doing today.

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Memories and Mass Observation / Women Centre Stage written by Heather Uprichard

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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Music:
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play

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Dear Girl

Synopsis:
about four socialist feminist friends at the turn of this century

Notes:
written by Libby Mason and Tierl Thompson

1st Produced:
Theatre workshop, Edinburgh    Aug 1983

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
in "Griffin, Gabriele & Aston, Elaine (Ed.), Herstory Vol.2: Plays By Women For Women" Sheffield Accademy, 1991   -

Music:
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Genre:
Historical Play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  5            Other:  -

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Double Vision

Synopsis:
Two women meet in a pub. One is playing pool. The other is handing out leaflets about a demonstration. One likes Dusty Springfield and Shirley Bassey. The other likes Dusty Springfield and The Clash. They both watch Dallas. They are immediately attracted to each other, but that's just the beginning of the story that the two actresses and musician will tell. . .DOUBLE VISION is a delightful and provoking exploration of the two women's relationship - their similarities and dissimilarities, their political and personal conflicts despite the 'Double Vision' they share of the world - and their attempts to change themselves as much as they are trying to change 'the world outside'. DOUBLE VISION is about the impact of feminism on our personal lives and about the way women are taking up political issues.

Notes:
written by Libby Mason

1st Produced:
Old Bull's Arts Centre, Barnet    1982

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
in "Davis, Lesbian Plays 1" Methuen, London, 1987   -

Music:
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Genre:
Play with Music

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Every Bit Of It

Synopsis:
She followed the blues and the blues followed her Bessie Smith - the Empress of the Blues - had a voice as raw, vibrant and full of pain and sensuality as her extraordinary life. A big voice that trumpeted the real story of life in the South across America and beyond her own time. Two women take the blues train out of town. Georgia is deaf, but the memory of Bessie's voice still changes the shape of her silence, lighting a trail to shuttered emotions and forgotten dreams. Cathy has tried to laugh away the truth which rings in Bessie's words. Riding the blues train into the night, they find themselves on the tracks of Bessie's life.

Notes:
Written by jackie Kay. Suzanne Bonnar as Bessie sings her songs of triumph and despair to Elizabeth Quinn as Georgia. Jackie Kay's lyrical poetry and an original score by Claire van Kampen harmonise in a bewitching evocation of the Power of the Blues, full of live music and haunting imagery.

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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Genre:
biographical play

Parts:
Male:  -            Female:  4            Other:  -

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Fantasia

Synopsis:
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Notes:
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1st Produced:
Almost-Free Theatre, London    1974

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Music:
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Fear and Loathing in King's Road

Synopsis:
It's almost 2004 and the world is a frightening place. Or so we're told. Fear circumscribes our lives, controls us and contains us, provokes us into fight or flight or leaves us paralysed with terror. . .and just occasionally sets us free. Observant, humane, and often amusing, these rehearsed readings come from a rich blend of emerging and established female playwrights who have set out to fearlessly articulate, debate, and celebrate an emotion that so powerfully affects us all.

Notes:
Fear and Loathing in King's Road by Clare Bayley, Marta Emmitt, Rosy Fordham, Elizabeth Lewis, Barbara Norden, llian Plowman and Polly Wiseman

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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Genre:
short plays

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Fixed Deal

Synopsis:
FIXED DEAL tells the story of four women from different backgrounds and cultures. The one thing they have in common is that they are all, in their various ways affected by drugs. FIXED DEAL looks at the way in which different cultures respond to different kinds of drugs.

Notes:
written by Paulette Randall and Taha Fairbanks

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Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Play/Drama

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Goliath

Synopsis:
An explosive account of the riots which rocked Newcastle, Cardiff and Oxford in the humid summer of 1991. Based on the book by Beatrix Campbell. Why did it happen? How could the streets of North Shields and Newcastle's West End become a no-go area? Who can forget those images of fury? Of firemen attacked as they attempted to put out burning buildings? Of our city ablaze? Goliath takes you on a journey through the thoughts, dreams, aspirations and frustrations of the people behind those extraordinary scenes and headlines.

Notes:
Based on the book by Beatrix Campbell written by Bryony Lavery

1st Produced:
Newcastle Haymarket Playhouse    13 Feb 1997

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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Music:
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Play/Drama

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Hanjo

Synopsis:
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Notes:
adaptation of Japanese Noh Play by Yukio Mishima translated by Donald Keene, adapted by Diane Esquerra

1st Produced:
National Tour    1995

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
adaptation

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Her Aching Heart

Synopsis:
A love story with a literary slant. Harriet, like Molly, suffers from an aching heart. Sharing the experience of a fictional and frequently symbolic journey that takes them from the austere granite walls of Helstone Hall, via the French Revolution to the icy corridors of the Hollows Convent, Harriet and Molly fall in, out and reluctantly back into each others arms.

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Women's Theatre Group

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  2            Other:  with doubling

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Holding the Reins

Synopsis:
about the decision to have, or not to have, children

Notes:
written by Alison Altman

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Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Music:
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Genre:
Play/Drama

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Male:  -            Female:  3            Other:  -

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Hot Spot

Synopsis:
about sexual stereotyping

Notes:
written with Eileen Fairweather

1st Produced:
Women's Theatre Group, London    1978

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
Youth Show Youth Audience

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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In Our Way

Synopsis:
about sexual discrimination

Notes:
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1st Produced:
-    1977

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
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Music:
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Instrument For Love

Synopsis:
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Notes:
written by Jennifer Phillips

1st Produced:
Women's Theatre Festival    08 Oct 1973

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
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Music:
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-

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Male:  2            Female:  2            Other:  woman's voice

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Island

Synopsis:
A short extract from a play currently in development, exploring the impact of domestic abuse on the lives of three women

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Parents and Politics / Women Centre Stage. Written by Emma Jowett

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
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Music:
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Genre:
short extract

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Male:  -            Female:  -            Other:  -

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Justice

Synopsis:
Two women wait to give evidence to a national tribunal on historical child abuse. They have been waiting for this all their lives. Edgy, furious, one rants, one hesitates. What will they say to the tribunal? What cannot be said? And what might be justice for these women?

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Conflict and Courtrooms / Women Centre Stage. Written by Beatrix Campbell and Judith Jones

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Katie Johnstone

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part of Works in Progress: Future Voices / Women Centre Stage. Written by Luke Barnes

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Sphinx Theatre Company

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Lear's Daughters

Synopsis:
Lear's Daughters is a prequel to King Lear which 'imagines the upbringing of King Lear's three motherless daughters after the death of the Queen', (quotation taken from BBC Women's Hour website) and introduces an androgynous Fool and a Nurse who serve as mother-figures in the Queen's place. It was conceived by Elaine Feinstein in 1987 and then, following a series of workshops, produced into the 90-minute-long text it is today by the Women's theatre Group (WTG).
Rebecca Warren-Heys

Notes:
written by Elaine Feinstein

1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>    24 Sep 1987

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
in "Griffin, Gabriele & Aston, Elaine (Ed.), Herstory Vol.2: Plays By Women For Women" Sheffield Accademy, 1991   -

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-

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Little Mermaid, The

Little Mermaid, The
On the Little Mermaid's fifteenth birthday she visits the world above the sea for the first time and falls in love with a prince whom she rescues from a storm. . .. Capturing the magic and cruelty of Hans Christian andersen's original tale, this powerful new version reveals the spectacle of the worlds below and above the sea, and the sadness of unfulfilled romance between a mermaid and a prince.

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from Hans Christian Andersen. Visit Samuel French for amateur performance enquiries

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Lounge, The

Synopsis:
95 years go by in a flash. An afternoon lasts an eternity. In a care home lounge somewhere in the South of England, 97-year old Marsha Hewitt begins the last day of her life. But she cannot go quietly. As the radiators burn and Jeremy Kyle blares, festering rivalries, estranged relatives and murderous impulses jostle for space on the Axminster carpet. A riot is brewing& Extreme old age is the fastest growing sector of the population. We are voyaging into a new realm of human life that has hardly existed before, an age where nearly one in five people currently in the UK will live to see their 100th birthday. The Lounge looks at the way we as a nation cope, or fail to cope, with the process of ageing we are all engaged in, young and old. A painstakingly slow farce from the makers of award-winning shows Hysteria, If That's all There Is and A High Street Odyssey. A work in progress performance of a new idea created by Inspector Sands (directed by Lu Kemp) - to be developed autumn 2015, touring 2016. Presented by Inspector Sands and China Plate.

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Memories and Mass Observation / Women Centre Stage. Devised by Inspector Sands

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Sphinx Theatre Company

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Love And Dissent

Synopsis:
Although it takes its initial setting from the present day LOVE AND DISSENT focuses on the ideas of Alexandra Kollontai. She was a woman who fought tirelessly within the Russian revolution for the rights of working women and for freer sexual and personal relationships. She hoped women would escape the enormous drudgery of their lives and also the dependencies inflicted by romantic love. For her, the revolution would bring new definitions of love and work and an integration of social and personal ideals. Her battle to extend revolutionary activity to include women was lifelong and often isolated.

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written by Elizabeth Bond

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Women's Theatre Group

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Lovefood

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Almost-Free Theatre, London    1973

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Mal de Mere

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Almost-Free Theatre, London    1973

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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-   -

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Memory Of Gold, The

Synopsis:
The Octagon Theatre, Bolton, present an extract in development for the first ever stage performance of this radio. A morality tale. Three friends reunite. They remember the feeling of invincibility from past days. A time when they were surrounded by friends and awake all night. It is very different now; their encounter shows they stand quite tragically, having realised the harsh realities of modern life and society.

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Parents and Politics / Women Centre Stage. Written by Timberlake Wertenbaker

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extract

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Mind The Gap

Synopsis:
In 1969 Oswald Laurence recorded three words that would become synonymous with London living. For years after, his widow Margaret would visit Embankment Station to check he was still there - but one day in the sprng of 2013 he was gone. Inspired by this captivating story, Hot Tubs and Trampolines Theatre Company explores its themes of love, loss, and what it really means to feel alone.

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Conflict and Courtrooms / Women Centre Stage. Devised by Hot Tubs and Trampolines

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Mortal

Synopsis:
Two creatures of alchemy and anarchy, struggle along their journey through states of being.

Notes:
written by Maro Green and Caroline Griffin

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Women's Theatre Group

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My Mkinga

Synopsis:
About birth control and corporate dumping set in east Africa

Notes:
written by Kate Phelps

1st Produced:
-    1979

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
-   -

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Polemic

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My Mother Says I Never Should

Synopsis:
about teenagers, sex and contraception

Notes:
-

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Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
in "Strike While the Iron Is Hot" Journeyman Press, 1980   -

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-

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Social Drama Play/Drama

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New Anatomies

Synopsis:
Set in the late 19th century - one of the most claustrophobic eras for women - the play is about women who were determined to live more interesting and creative lives. In order to achieve this they sometimes had to go to the extent of ridding themselves of the clothes, restrictive gestures and habits of women. But although they donned men's personalities, they did not "become men", but rather switched sex according to need, or hovered somewhere in between. Once freed from convention, they could earn their living as male impersonators on the music hall stage, write, or become adventurers like Isabelle Eberhardt. This extraordinary woman was able, between bouts of sexual rampage and drink, to get herself accepted as a young devout in a Moslem male sect.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
ICA, London >>>    30 Sep 1981

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
in "Plays Introduction", Faber and Faber, London, 1984   -

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-

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Our Lady

Synopsis:
Three women, two black and one white, from different cultures and experience of life all claim to be Our Lady. They are brought to trial for heresy by the Holy Inquisition, whose represntative has been summoned from the fifteenth century - Flyer for "Our Lady" THM/322/5/17

Notes:
written by Deborah Levy

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Theatre    Aug 1986

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Out! On the Costa Del Trico

Synopsis:
about the strike at the Trico factory for equal pay

Notes:
-

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Women's Theatre Group

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Parade of Cats

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-

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-

1st Produced:
Almost-Free Theatre, London    1973

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Pax

Synopsis:
poetry and music about women and nuclear war

Notes:
written by Deborah Levy. PAX is a highly innovative new play. It interweaves movement, poetry, music, dialogue and visuals in an allegory of our time.

1st Produced:
Edinburgh Festival Fringe    Aug 1984

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Picture Palace

Synopsis:
PICTURE PALACE is set in a sleazy local cinema where Jo, Tilly and Gwen work as usherettes. To make their monotonous days bearable, they escape into the world of the big screen.

Notes:
written by Winsome Pinnock

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Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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Cultural Drama Play/Drama

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Pinchdice & Co

Synopsis:
A lot of scabby women follow a crUSAde.

Notes:
written by Julie Wilkinson

1st Produced:
Theatre Centre    1987

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
in "Griffin, Gabriele & Aston, Elaine (Ed.), Herstory Vol.2: Plays By Women For Women" Sheffield Accademy, 1991   -

Music:
-

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For 15-18 year olds

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Playhouse Creatures

Synopsis:
Period 1669 theatres have just reopened, focuses on the precarious lives of five famous restoration actresses

Notes:
written by April de Angelis

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1994   -

Music:
-

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Prepper

Synopsis:
Rachel's a prepper. She's getting prepared for the end of the world, storing tins of chickpeas under her bed (for me, the end of the world will have a Moroccan flavour). In this darkly comic monologue, Rachel muses on the benefits of the forthcoming apocalypse (lower house prices), the promise of a brave new world (maybe the penguins will take over, they seem benign) and how, sometimes, the end of the world can be a real downer.

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Memories and Mass Observation / Women Centre Stage. Written by Caroline Moran

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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Pretty Ugly

Synopsis:
advertising and fashion and their effects on teenage girls

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Almost-Free Theatre, London    1977

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

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-   -

Music:
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Question, The

Synopsis:
A kaleidoscopic pilgrimage through post WW1 Europe. Against the backdrop of political turmoil in the Weimar Republic, Peter Cox's new play explores the liberated and sophisticated Cabaret clubs of 20s Berlin and glimpses ahead to the bleak and vicious world of the Gulags. The Question looks at the impact of political upheaval on the lives of five characters: poet and playwright Bertolt Brecht, writer Lion Feuchtwanger, Erika the Cocotte, Volker the soldier, and Marta the dissident.

Notes:
part of Women At War / Women Centre Stage. Written by Peter Cox

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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play with music

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Roaring Girl's Hamlet,the

Synopsis:
A secret stage, London, 1605. Moll Cutpurse is the Roaring Girl. Dressed as a man, brawling, boasting and breaking the rules, she's the toast of the Elizabethan underworld. Renegades like her spice the crowded taverns and infiltrate the playhouses. Tonight, Moll has gathered a motley troupe of these rogues and those women who work, marry and mother. Together, they will perform for you an outlawed act - an all- women performance of Hamlet. Plunged into a world of treachery and dissemblance, Hamlet is charged with a cruel duty. But discovering the truth will not be the worst. Surviving his unnatural knowledge demands a brutal coming-of-age. Questioning his reason and testing his identity, the young prince travels a universal journey, freshly expressed in a woman's voice.

Notes:
written by Claire Luckham

1st Produced:
Warehouse Theatre Croydon, London    31 Jan 1992

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
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-

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Play/Drama

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Roses

Synopsis:
Set between Kenya and London, Roses is a dark tale of love, power and sex.

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Future Voices / Women Centre Stage

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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Shoot! I Didn't Mean Thaat

Synopsis:
If I'd been drunk that would have made sense. A drunk Brit abroad. But no, I was sober. . . With a 'siege heil' here and a bang bang there, this dark comedy by Catriona Kerridge (Come to Where I'm From, Paines Plough) follows an interpreter, a tourist and two schoolgirls as they descend into a world of war crimes and disaster tourism.

Notes:
part of Women At War / Women Centre Stage

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

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-   -

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-

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dark comedy

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Snow Palace, The

Snow Palace, The
story of the Polish playwright Stanislawa Przbyszzewska, a pathfinder and a brave lonely woman

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
South Hill Park Arts Centre, Wilde Theatre, Bracknell    22 Jan 1998

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
Oberon Books, London, 1998   -

Music:
-

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Biographical

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Soap Opera

Synopsis:
trapped in a launderette, a group of women talk to each other about their lives

Notes:
written by Donna Franceschild

1st Produced:
-    1978

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Sweet Dreams

Synopsis:
Esguerra traces the story of Dora, the patient about whom Freud wrote his famous case study. Dora accuses Karl Kaufmann of molesting her but Freud is convinced she is in love with the man and, more worryingly, later believes that she is 'transferring' her feelings for Kaufmann onto himself. The play portrays the world's first case of diagnosed 'Hysteria'.

Notes:
written by Diane Esguerra

1st Produced:
Chelsea Theatre, London >>>    11 Oct 1999

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Time Pieces

Synopsis:
an historic look at lives of women throughout the twentieth century

Notes:
written by Lou Wakefield

1st Produced:
Derby Hall, Bury    1982

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
Contained in: "Plays By Women volume Three" published by Methuen 1985   -

Music:
-

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piece

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Trade Secrets

Synopsis:
about pornography and violence - the dilemma of the hetrosexual feminist who misses a man while resenting men.

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Albany Empire, London    16 Feb 1984

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Play/Drama

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Twelve

Synopsis:
In a creative response to the shocking police statistic that in the UK on average twelve women are killed each year in so-called honour based violence, Kali Theatre commissioned monlogues from 12 writers giving voice to these lost lives. Three stories are showcased here, based on research of true stories in a moving and powerful piece of theatre.

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Parents and Politics / Women Centre Stage. Devised by Kali Theatre

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Vita And Virginia

Synopsis:
adapted from the correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West, this play chronicles the remarkable friendship and intimate love affair between two of the most celebrated members of the famous Bloomsbury Group in 1920s London.

Notes:
adapted by Eileen Atkins. The Sphinx Theatre production was on 18 Mar 1999, Warwick Arts Centre. The production in 1992 may have been by another company.

1st Produced:
Minerva Studio, Chichester    Oct 1992

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
Samuel French, London, 1995   -

Music:
-

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adaptation

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Voyage in the Dark

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Notes:
Adapted by Joan Wiles from Novel By Jean Rhys

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Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Wedding Story, A

Wedding Story, A
about a lesbian, a wedding day bonk and a mother who contracts alzheimer's.
Robert Gore-Langton, express

Notes:
written by Bryony Lavery

1st Produced:

Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre Company

1st Published:
Faber and Faber, London, 2001   978-0571234653

Music:
-

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Comedy. - - Gay/Lesbian, of interest

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Welcome Home Lottery

Synopsis:
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Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Future Voices / Women Centre Stage. Written by Matilda Ibini

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Sphinx Theatre

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-   -

Music:
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What Is the Custom Of Your Grief

Synopsis:
Ignited by losing their brothers in Helmand- two strangers from very different cultures share their grief over the internet but it transpires that they, and theirgrief, are bound more intricately than they first expected. Presented by the Octagon Theatre, Bolton.

Notes:
part of Works in Progress: Conflict and Courtrooms / Women Centre Stage. Written by Timberlake Wertenbaker

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Organisations:
Sphinx Theatre

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
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Wild Bunch, The

Synopsis:
sexism in a mixed youth club

Notes:
written by Bryony Lavery

1st Produced:
Women's Theatre Group, London    1979

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
in "Responses", Thomas Nelson, London,    -

Music:
-

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Witchcraze

Synopsis:
women as witches

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
BAC , London >>>    18 Sep 1985

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
in "Her Story", Sheffield academic Press, Sheffield, 1991   -

Music:
-

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Genre:
Mask Play

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Work To Role

Synopsis:
discrimination against women in the workplace

Notes:
-

1st Produced:
Almost-Free Theatre, London    1976

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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Yellow

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-

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Sphinx Theatre Company

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performance installation

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Zerri's Choice

Synopsis:
A mother deciding whether or not to go back to Guyana

Notes:
written by Sandra Yaw

1st Produced:
Drill Hall, London >>>    26 Oct 1989

Organisations:
Women's Theatre Group

1st Published:
-   -

Music:
-

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