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The Mayven
March 22 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Gather like witches for the Spring equinox and let’s bring life and light from the dark!
With the moon above us and the sun shining a little longer each day, it’s time to rise from the underworld of winter, through the rich soil of sisterhood and unfurl our creative buds forth as spring draws near.
Using songs, storytelling and comedy, we will create an evening exploring women’s experiences ranging from the sinister to the sensual, the divine to the downright daft. Join us in joy, rage and celebration as we rejuvenate and invigorate!
Artists:
Emer O Connor
Emer O Connor is an actor, comedian & storyteller. Emer was born in Belfast and grew up with the myths of the Ulster Cycle, she also collects tales from all over the world. As a storyteller, Emer has spun stories at Festival at the Edge, 40Winks Bedtime Story Nights, pubs (with her telling partner Rose Allwork – the Stokey Spinners had a two year residency in The Auld Shillelagh, Hackney), playgrounds, homes, graveyards and wild cabaret nights.
Working alongside her fellow Mayvens, Emer has created new tales hewn from old to fit the place of telling; as a Hackneyite of more than two decades she can’t wait to see what bubbles up for The Muddle Puddle.
Alice Robinson
Since graduating from RADA, Alice has worked as an actor, writer, producer, and podcast maker.
Credits include ‘Peter Pan‘ (Minack Theatre for Scary Little Girls), ‘From Rushmere With Love‘ (Eastern Angles), and Muffin in the original UK cast of ‘Voldemort and the Teenage Hogwarts Musical Parody‘.
For the Greenham Women Everywhere project, she has edited over 100 interviews with women who lived at and supported the Greenham Common Peace Camp, and created the narrative podcast ‘Greenham Uncommon‘. She is a member of the Radical Rep Company for the Mayven Festival.
Radhika Aggarwal
Passionate about new writing and ensemble, Radhika is an award-winning actor, working across film, theatre, television, games, and audio. She is approaching 20 years as a member of Equity and Spotlight and is a member of Bafta.
Screen credits include THE SPLIT (BBC), THE CHILDREN ACT (BBC FILMS/STUDIOCANAL), FOUR WEDDINGS AND A FUNERAL (MGM/UNIVERSAL/HULU), CASUALTY (BBC), NEW TRICKS (BBC). As a voice actor, she has featured in numerous video games and radio plays.
Theatre credits include: The Lovely Bones (Birmingham Rep/UK Tour), Satyagraha (Improbable/ENO/LA Opera), and touring her one-woman show, ‘An Arrangement of Shoes’ written by Abhishek Majumdar (Tara Theatre, Edinburgh Fringe, Vancouver Fringe winning ‘Pick of the fringe’).
Over lockdown, she founded Echo Chamber, primarily providing creative audio output including GPS triggered audio quests and sound installations featuring local stories and artists. Recent projects have been funded by Heritage Lottery and Arts Council England. Echo Chamber also loved working with Scary Little Girls on their Caravan of Stories and are loving co-producing The London Mayven events.
A multi-instrumentalist, Rad drums with anti-folk band ‘Extradition Order’ and protest collective ‘Orchestrated Discontent’. She currently co-coordinates and participates in Soho Theatres Alumni Writers Lab.
Instagram: @madradster
Rebecca Mordan
Rebecca Mordan is Artistic Director and the beating heart of Scary Little Girls.
After graduating from Sheffield University with a BA in English Literature, Rebecca spent 3 years at Bristol Old Vic. She has worked as an actor in film, theatre and television, and founded award-winning production hub Scary Little Girls, to create roles and opportunities for women and populate stories with diverse female characters.
With SLG, Rebecca has written, directed, produced and performed while working with a wide range of partners including the BFI, Glastonbury Festival and Hall for Cornwall (for whom she is an Associate Artist). She recently co-wrote and presented The Greenham Effect for the BBC’s Archive on Four, drawing on the 200 plus testimonials she helped gather from Greenham Women as part of the Greenham Women Everywhere project she co-foundered.
2021 has also seen the publication of her first book, Out of the Darkness: Greenham Voices drawing on these interviews. Her first piece of fiction for radio was featured in The UK Project, in which she was asked to represent the Cornish voice, out this year.
She is a founder member of KerPow, Cornish female artists tackling sex and gender discrimination and has been a campaigner against male violence for over 25 years. Thanks to this she is often a ‘rent-a-feminist’ guest for BBC Radio, including You and Yours, 5 Live and Women’s Hour, and Sky News.
