Image Credit: Catti Calthrop and Adele Salem in Les Autres (That Lot) by Sarah McNair (1985). Photo: Susan Croft. The production by Hard Corps explored the lesbian world of fin-de-siècle Paris
We’ve recently heard about this FAB feminist exhibition and we’d love to share it with you!
London Performance Studios presents Radical Rediscovery: Feminist Theatre in Britain 1969-1992, a new archival exhibition and events programme celebrating fifty years of alternative theatre made by women in the UK. The exhibition shares materials from the Unfinished Histories archive, and is curated by its founder Dr. Susan Croft.
The 1960s–1990s in Britain saw an explosion in alternative theatre made by women. Radical Rediscovery is an ambitious new survey that sets out to grapple with the nuanced and far-reaching social and political contexts behind this significant period of feminist theatre and practice.
Radical Rediscovery begins with a series of vitrines displaying original ephemera, posters, documentation, and script excerpts from pioneering women that defined this period, including; Jane Arden (1960s), Women’s Theatre Group (Sphinx Theatre), Hesitate and Demonstrate, Sadista Sisters, Beryl and The Perils, Cunning Stunts (1970s to 80s), and Theatre of Black Women (1980s). This is underscored throughout by the stalwart community theatre groups and activist networks that made this work possible, including Women in Entertainment, Women Live, and the Women’s Playhouse Trust.
The exhibition runs from 8 November – 1 December, find out more here
