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WOMEN'S THEATRE GROUP (1974 - ) |
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Nationality: British Email: Click here to contact Website: Click here to visit |
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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
Plays by Women's Theatre Group
Better A Live Pompey Than A Dead Cyril | ||
| 1st Produced: | 23 Feb 1981 | |||||
Company: | Women's Theatre Group, London | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37927 | |||
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Genre: | Show | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 4 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Stephanie Nunn; from poems and writings of Stevie Smith | |||||
Synopsis: | detailed ironic observation of everyday anxieties that characterise Smith's poetry | |||||
Further Reference: | Theatre Record Volume I (1981) Page 87 | |||||
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Double Vision | ||
| 1st Produced: | Old Bull's Arts Centre, Barnet | 1982 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Davis, Lesbian Plays 1" Methuen, London, 1987 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37928 | |||
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Genre: | Play with Music | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 3 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Libby Mason | |||||
Synopsis: | about the relationship of two women differing in class, culture and politics | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Holding The Reins | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1987 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37929 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written with Alison Altman | |||||
Synopsis: | about the decision to have, or not to have, children | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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In Our Way | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1978 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37930 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about sexual discrimination | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Lear's Daughters | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1987 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Griffin, Gabriele & Aston, Elaine (Ed.), Herstory Vol.2: Plays By Women For Women" Sheffield Accademy, 1991 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37931 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | 5 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | written by Eileen Feinstein and The Women's Theatre Group | |||||
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). | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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My Mother Says I Never Should | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1975 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Strike While The Iron Is Hot" Journeyman Press, 1980 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37932 | |||
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Genre: | Social Drama Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | 2 | Female | 6 | ||
Parts other: | - | |||||
Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about teenagers, sex and contraception | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Out! On The Costa Del Trico | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1977 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37933 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | about the strike at the Trico factory for equal pay | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Pretty Ugly | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | 1977 | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37934 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | advertising and fashion and their effects on teenage girls | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Time Pieces | ||
| 1st Produced: | - - - | - - - | ||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | in "Plays by Women 3" Methuen, London, 1984 | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37935 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | written with Lou Wakefield | |||||
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Further Reference: | - | |||||
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Work To Role | ||
| 1st Produced: | 1976 | |||||
Company: | n/a | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #37936 | |||
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Genre: | n/a | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Notes: | - | |||||
Synopsis: | discrimination against women in the workplace | |||||
Further Reference: | - | |||||
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