The Greenham Women Everywhere Night Around The Campfire
2020-09-19 19:30 - 22:30 (Europe/London)
Join us for a window into the world of Greenham, from women who were there, and female artists who have been inspired by the camp!
This exclusive evening will celebrate and commemorate the Greenham Women’s Peace Camp with contributions from women who were there!

You’ll also get a sneak preview of the look and feel of our amazing Arts Council funded project bringing an interactive exhibition about the Camp to life online, ahead of the launch later in the autumn.

An evening of two halves, we’ll treat you to ‘in conversation’ chats – including one between Nina Milns and Sue Say who will be discussing police, courts, prison and race at Greenham – performances of ‘Take The Toys From The Boys’ and parts of Carry Greenham Home, plus memories of the camp, extracts from Stephanie Davies’ memoir, ‘Other Girls Like Me‘, and a preview of Chisato Minamimura ‘Scored in Silence‘ solo digital artwork work that unpacks the untold tales of deaf hibakusha, survivors of the A-Bombs that fell in Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Add music from Claire Ingleheart and Sharon Andrew and you’ll see why we are excited!
In true Greenham spirit, we’ll end with a singalong – will you join us? We do hope so!
Get your £5 tickets over on Eventbrite – see you online on the 19th!

In the Footsteps of the Mitfords
2020-09-23 - 2020-09-27 | Asthall Manor, Asthall, Burford, Oxfordshire, OX18 4HW
***NEW DATES ADDED DUE TO FABULOUS DEMAND! BOOK NOW FOR 23-27 SEPTEMBER!***
The Mitford sisters were writers, travellers and political archivists with dramatically differing views. Following their previous sell-out successes, In The Footsteps Of The Mitfords returns in partnership with The Theatre Chipping Norton, bringing the experiences, opinions and relationships of the celebrated sisters to life through live performances of their letters, fiction, and memoirs. The performances take place in the stunning setting of the gardens of their childhood home, Asthall Manor, near Burford in Oxfordshire.
We have made changes to the performance to conform to current social distancing measures, including smaller groups, spaced performance times and locations that accommodate social distance between audience members and performers.
Booking is now open

Salon de la Vie - Season Two - Maya Angelou
2020-09-30 19:30 - 19:50
For your diary – Salon de la Vie explores the life of Maya Angelou on the 30th September! Join us online at 19.30
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Phenomenal Woman
What better way to end the season than on Maya Angelou – poet, performer, activist and wordwitch! With special guest Kudzanayi Chiwawa we look at Maya’s childhood, her revolutionary writing and her influence on women everywhere.
We can’t wait to celebrate this multifaceted powerhouse of talent with you, sharing readings of her poems and autobiography and praising her like we should!
Did you know?
In 2011 Maya spoke out in opposition to a paraphrase of a quotation by King that appeared on a memorial, saying, “The quote makes Dr. Martin Luther King look like an arrogant twit”
Maya totally redefined the concept of the autobiography, with her 7 volumes about her life starting with “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”
Follow this link for one of the most seemingly unlike collaborations of all time; Maya Angelou, Jessica Mitford and Bernard Cribbins!

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Hallowe'en Special - Salon de la Vie!
2020-10-31 19:30 - 20:00 | online
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? ? Celebrate Hallowe’en with us at 7.30 on October 31st ? ?
This Hallowe’en we bring our signature Scary Little Girls approach to all thing spooky!
Join us to celebrate our classic seasonal storytelling as well as some original commissions we’ve created over the years for a take on All Hallows Eve that is wild, witty, wily and womancentric!
With stories from Kate Kerrow and L. H. Trevail and a new interpretation of work by Christina Rossetti by Christina Li, we’re breaking out the bats, lining up the cats, and getting ready for a delicious Scary Little evening!
And why not line up the classic 90’s movie Hocus Pocus or Hollywood classic Arsenic and Old Lace for afterwards?
About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others.
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project and the WONDERFUL Jacky Fleming for her amazing illustrations used on this, and every, Salon de la Vie.
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Embrace the Base: Living Legacies of Greenham Women
2020-11-18 18:30 - 20:30 | Online
What was life like at the Greenham Common Peace Camp between 1981 and 2000?
Tune in to this very special interactive performance event at the brilliant Being Human Festival of Humanities where we’ll be talking activism, direct action, and protest, and sharing the oral histories of Greenham Women through songs, games, and virtual reality.

This is organised by The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London

Tickets are FREE – read more and book yours here

Salon de la Vie and LAUNCH of Greenham Women Digital!
2020-11-25 19:30 - 20:00 | Scary Little Girls YouTube Channel
Join us for an eggs to the wall feminist special on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (IDEVAW) and help us launch our groundbreaking online exhibition, Greenham Women Digital!
Host Rebecca Mordan will be chatting about the new site that brings together first-hand accounts of life at the iconic Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp with a 3D treasure hunt of original performances pieces by and about the Greenham Women.
To support this and to honour the IDEVAW, we’ve chosen material for Rebecca to perform from some of our favourite Scaries such as writer Lorna Partington, Greenham Woman Sue Say and folk legend Peggy Seeger.
This salon will go from the sublime to the ridiculous and we’d love to take you with us as we celebrate the invention, fortitude and attitude of women in their fight against violence and patriarchy – for liberty, sisters!
Book your FREE tickets here

Gala for Virginia Woolf
2020-12-12 19:00 - 21:00
An evening of personal reflections and responses to the work of Virginia Woolf from a diverse range of writers, musicians, artists and fans

Organised by Aurora Metro to raise funds for a statue of Virginia Woolf:

Pour a glass of something cheery and join us for an entertaining evening.

With a mixture of live interviews, readings and songs from a diverse range of fantastic writers, artists and performers this event promises to be a lively celebration of all things Virginia Woolf.
Help Aurora Metro to reach their target of £50,000 and make Virginia Woolf’s bronze statue a reality! This is the clay model in progress below and 45% of funds have been raised to date.
Book now
Contributors to the evening include:
MC: Linda Duberley, broadcaster and journalist
Musicians: Kyla Brox, Sister Cookie, Woolf and Music
Writers: Kimberley Coates, Sarah Gristwood, Mark Haddon, Emily Midorikawa and Emma Claire Sweeney, Frances Spalding, Anne Sebba
Comediennes: Deborah Frances White, Elf Lyons and Clare Summerskill
Artist: Louisa Albani
Theatre: Katie Mitchell preparing her production of ‘Orlando’ in Paris.
Rebecca Mordan performs a reading and song.
Dyad Productions perform an extract from their adaptation of Woolf’s work A Room of One’s Own.
Marvellous Machine’s production of Orlando directed by Lou Corben (extract).
We will also be offering all manner of other good things for attendees to purchase for the benefit of the project.
To donate directly to the statue project, go here: virginmoneygiving.com/fund/VirginiaWoolfStatue

Scary Little Hi-Jinks at the Christmas special Salon de la Vie!
2020-12-16 19:30 - 21:00 | Scary Little Girls YouTube Channel
We’ve made a list, we’ve checked it twice – the line up for our Scary Little Christmas Hi-Jinks is complete!
Join us online at 7.30pm on the 16th December for a fun filled evening of festive, feminist fun!
Here are a few things we’ve got up our faux fur-lined sleeve
A Festive (J)Uke Box (Artistic Director Rebecca Mordan and the ukealady) which will do its best to play your requests on the night. Song sheets will be supplied in the run up to the event so you can choose what you want and join in!
A hilarious new look at carols with the Hyrrs Not Hymns!
Tech tricks that will allow you to feed directly into the fun while you watch inc live chat and an online message board so we can take your requests and as host I’ll be trialling for the first time a piece of costume that you can influence from your homes…!
Your Sparkly Seasonal Selfies and yes, there will be a prize if you can beat Becca in the glitter stakes!
So line up your treats, warm that grog and hang up those stockings – we plan to fill them with a night of scary little high-jinks because we’ve all been bleddy great this weird, bad year and it’s time to get naughty and nice!
Book your tickets here (And if you’re wondering why we’re charging for this one, read this)

Salon du Chocolat - covid safe! (Truro)
2020-12-28 19:30 - 21:00, 2020-12-29 19:30 - 21:00 | Gwaryjy (Pydar Pop Up Venue), 8 St Clements Street, Truro, Cornwall, TR1 1DT
Join us at the new Covid-19 safe venue in Truro, Gwaryjy, run by Popp Theatre, for a special festive edition of Salon du Chocolat! This exciting and illicit storytelling event celebrates the relationship between famed aphrodisiac cocoa and forbidden literature! Expect mouth-watering chocolate treats served alongside secret, banned and scandalous tales from authors such as Lord Byron, John Donne, Angela Carter and Mary Elizabeth Braddon.
Book now
Salon du Chocolat has enjoyed sold-out success at the Edinburgh Free Fringe, Oxford Playhouse, the Theatre Chipping Norton, the Cornerstone in Didcot and beyond.
“Such fantastic stories, so fantastically told! I feel like a child again, no film could compete. Definitely a convert”
“Gripping! Brilliantly paced – could not have asked for more.”
“Thank you for a lovely evening.”
“Thank you, the stories were so well read and chosen and the atmosphere was lovely.”
“Delicious and delightful. More of the same please….”
Audience comments from previous Salon du Chocolat events

Salon de la Vie - Season Three - Valentine Special
2021-02-10 19:30 - 20:00
Mark your diaries! Salon de la Vie is back for Season Three on the 10th February 2021 with a Valentine Special!
✮ February 10th 2021
✮ 7.30pm
✮ YouTube
Join us on the 10th February for an alternative and feminist take on Valentines Day and all things romantic love.
We’ve got nothing against love – in fact, we love it – but Valentine’s Day in particular can feel a bit commercial and sickly… or if you’re single, it can be a slap in the face.
So, our Valentine special Salon de la Vie is going to be a very different take on romance – less hearts, flowers and Hallmark, more celebration of all of the catastrophes and insanities of love!
Artistic Director Rebecca Mordan is going to be looking at some of the myths and stereotypes about the season through a feminist lens and with tongue firmly in cheek. We’ll be deconstructing some traditional romantic tropes and presenting some feisty alternatives! Expect some bitter and twisted stories along with the happy endings, where, while love wins, Prince Charming is not the end game.
We’re delighted to welcome back our friend Kudzanayi Chiwawa who will make a special appearance performing a poem called Humanity, Gaia’s Young Lover, Replies to Her Break-up Letter by Dorothea Smartt.
People at all points of the romantic spectrum are welcome – so whether you are in, out of or over love, this is the night for you. So tear up your cards and bin the flowers, because after this evening you’ll never see Valentine’s Day the same way again!
Get into the mood with our specially curated Valentine’s playlist, celebrating love in all its guises – not just the mushy hearts-for-eyes kind, but also the unrequited, the messy, the vengeful and the self-love!

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Three - Tove Jansson
2021-02-24 19:30 - 20:00
Mark your diaries! The second episode of Salon de la Vie Season Three on the 24th February 2021 is all about the wonderful Tove Jansson!
✮ February 24th 2021
✮ 7.30pm
✮ YouTube
Join your host Rebecca and special guest actor Gabriella Gabbitas for a look at the life and writing of Tove Jansson, satirist, illustrator, fine artist and author.
Enjoy extracts from Jansson’s work for children and adults, hear about the context of her life and listen to Gabriella’s personal memories of meeting Tove when her father helped bring the Moomins to the Finnish Swedish theatre (YES REALLY!)
We’re looking forward to chatting to you on the messages board – and as ever prepare yourself for the musical accompaniments which Rebecca has decided are most fitting for the Salon’s themes!
Did you know?
– Too Ticky, the no-nonsense, practical, wise creature that lives in the Moomin’s boathouse in the winter, was based on Tove’s real life wife?
– Tove was a brave and outspoken critic of Stalin and the Russian state’s abuse of Finland, having also used her art to combat fascism in her youth during World War 2
– Even in her children’s books Tove explores difficult and complex emotions and situations, like Moominpappa’s depression in ‘Moominpappa at Sea’, and loneliness and need in ‘Moomin Valley in November’ (the only Moomin book with none of the main characters in)
Get into the mood with a specially curated playlist inspired by – and featuring! – the creative genius of Tove Jansson, exploring the changing seasons of her Scandinavian island home, the playful sprites of her imagination, and the darkness always lurking around the edges:

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project.
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Carry Greenham Home: online screening and Q&A
2021-03-07 18:00 - 19:00
Join the fabulous POW! Thanet festival for a special free online screening of this legendary documentary about the women of the Greenham Common peace camp.

The screening will be followed by a live performance of Greenham campfire songs from Rebecca Mordan of Scary Little Girls, and a Q&A with the film’s director Baroness Beeban Kidron, who famously said:
“The women of Greenham Common taught a generation how to protest.”
Book now – it’s free!
Find out more on the POW! Thanet website.

Salon de la Vie - Season Three - Mother's Day Special
2021-03-10 19:30 - 20:00
Mark your diaries! The third episode of Salon de la Vie Season Three on the 10th March 2021 is a Mother’s Day Special!
✮ March 10th 2021
✮ 7.30pm
✮ YouTube

Join your host Rebecca as she explores our cultures – and her own – relationship with mothers in this Mother’s Day special
Through readings from authors Angela Carter and Agatha Christie and songs by Kirsty MacColl and Sinead O’Connor, Rebecca will explore the often complicated relationship we have with those who nurture us.
With warmth, wit and a drop of mother’s ruin, she’ll be looking at the power of our relationships with our mother’s to create and destroy, at mother’s as activists and heroes, and celebrating the impact of these vital guardians with feet-of clay.
We’re looking forward to chatting to you on the messages board – and as ever prepare yourself for the musical accompaniments which Rebecca has decided are most fitting for this Salons!
Did you know?
– In her famous video of Nothing Compares 2U, Sinead O’Connor achieved the iconic tearful shot of her singing one take as she thought of the difficult relationship between herself and her mother who had died just before filming started.
– Kirsty MacColl’s mother Jean Newlove travelled the world trying to achieve justice for her daughter’s tragic and untimely death – killed by a speedboat in Mexican waters in December 2000. She never gave up her struggle and wrote My Kirsty to further promote her daughter’s legacy, just a few years before her own death.
– Rebecca’s own mum was a Greenham Woman who took her daughter to the camp and to Embrace the Base! This year is the 40th anniversary of the start of The Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp!
Get into the mood with our specially curated playlist for Mother’s Day, evoking the unique connection between mother and child; the loving but also the complex and visceral; the pain of losing or never finding that bond; mothers who are absent or smothering; the freedom to choose whether to become a mother; the sacrifices made for ungrateful children; custody battles and IVF treatment; the blood, the milk, the intensity – the sacred power to create life:

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Three - Marilyn Monroe
2021-03-24 19:30 - 20:00
Mark your diaries! The fourth episode of Salon de la Vie Season Three on the 24th March 2021 is all about the enigmatic Marilyn Monroe!
✮ March 24th 2021
✮ 7.30pm
✮ YouTube
Join your host Rebecca as she explores our culture’s – and her own – enduring obsession with Marilyn Monroe.
Through readings from authors Truman Capote and Sarah Churchwell and songs by Portishead and Lucy Dacus, Rebecca will explore the complicated relationship we have with Marilyn Monroe as fans, voyeurs and critics.
With warmth, wit and a drop of fizzy, Rebecca will chat about some of Monroe’s less well known films, made as she started to have creative control of her career, and see if these can shine a light on the artist and person too often hidden by the sex symbol and persona.
We’re looking forward to chatting to you on the messages board – and to welcoming Special Guest TJ Holmes, who regulars will know from his marvellous musical arrangements, to give us a reading as our first mancub to perform in the Salon de la Vie!
Did you know?
– Truman Capote and Marilyn Monroe were good friends and the character of Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany’s was inspired by her
– During the filming of Niagara in 1953, she was still under contract as a stock actor, thus, she received less salary than her make-up man
– In her last interview, Monroe told Richard Meryman, ‘It’s nice to be in people’s fantasies, but you also like to be accepted for your own sake.’
Get into the mood by listening to our specially curated Marilyn Monroe playlist, showcasing her incredible singing talents alongside snippets from her most famous films and a wide range of songs inspired by her life, art, cultural impact and legacy:

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Three - Daphne du Maurier
2021-04-07 19:30 - 20:00
Mark your diaries! The fifth episode of Salon de la Vie Season Three on the 7th April 2021 is all about the wonderful Daphne du Maurier!
✮ April 7th 2021
✮ 7.30pm
✮ YouTube
Join your host Rebecca as she explores the life and imagination of Daphne du Maurier!
Born into a dramatic family – in every sense! – and drawn to Cornwall at an early age, Daphne’s writing continues to amuse and enthral with her vast cast of characters encompassing actors, pirates, lovers, murderers, conmen, druggies and violent birds!
There’ll be readings from her novels and short stories and songs from Kate Bush and Amanda Palmer, as well as chat about the colourful du Maurier clan – and of course, we welcome you to bring your favourite from the bar and chat to Rebecca on the message board during the show.
Did you know?
– When Daphne was little she often role-played as her swashbuckling alter-ego, Eric!
– Daphne was a huge fan of Emily Bronte; her first novel is influenced by her admiration for Wuthering Heights
– Daphne is rumoured to have had an affair with Prince Philip (which we really hope isn’t true…)
Get into the mood with our specially curated playlist which pays homage to Daphne’s great love of Cornwall and the hungry, surrounding sea; digging into film scores and other pieces inspired by her stories; taking in some of her Desert Island Discs choices and nodding to some lesser-known aspects as her life – ultimately plunging into a dark morass of suspicion, betrayal, jealousy and murder (with a little levity along the way), to celebrate the unforgettable atmosphere and variety of her greatest works…

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project.
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Three - Janis Joplin
2021-04-21 19:30 - 20:00
Mark your diaries! The sixth episode of Salon de la Vie Season Three on the 21st April 2021 is all about the wonderful Janis Joplin!
✮ April 21st 2021
✮ 7.30pm
✮ YouTube
Join your host Rebecca as she explores the full tilt boogie that was Janis Joplin!
Born in a small town Janis exploded out of the bonds of her conservative upbringing to become the embodiment of the hippy movement, the festival scene and rock and roll. Singing the blues and carving out a party persona, that sometimes hid the smart, sensitive soul artist beneath.
Get your whiskey in your hand, your glitter on your face and your feathers in your hair to listen to the songs she covered and wrote, feel her passion for her work and enjoy readings from feminists writing about women, sin and the music business. Prepare to find out why it was different for girls, and how different girls get both celebrated and punished in the boys club.
We look forward to welcoming you into the festival express for this season 3 finale!
Did you know?
– Before Janis was a was a flower and feather rocking hippy she was a beatnik, wearing only dark, somber shirt and pant combos for her teens.
– Janis had a very public fling and then fist fight with Jim Morrison from the Doors; she hit him over the head with a bottle in the later…
– Janis helped to ensure that her ideal Bessie Smith had a headstone
Get in the mood by wailing along to this specially curated selection of Janis’ most heart-stopping, toe-tapping, brain-frazzling moments: her early blues influences like Big Mama Thornton and Bessie Smith; cross-pollinating contemporary scenesters like Otis Redding and Jimi Hendrix; fellow Woodstockers like The Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane; friends and admirers like Leonard Cohen and Kris Kristofferson – and closing with a few legendary members of the infamous 27 Club…

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Greenham Common 40th Anniversary Celebration (POW! Thanet)
2021-05-08 - 2021-05-09 | Powell-Cotton Museum, Quex Park, Birchington, Kent, CT7 0BH
An immersive, historical, theatrical experience, hosted by Scary Little Girls as part of POW! Thanet 2021 Festival.
In September 1981, 36 women walked from Cardiff to the RAF base at Greenham Common in protest against the American government holding nuclear cruise missiles on common land. This marked the beginning of a 19 year protest at Greenham Common.
Join us for this live in-person event in the gardens of the Powell-Cotton Museum in Birchington-on-Sea, to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp.
This event allows you to experience aspects of the peace camp, including campfire singing, banner making and discussion.
You will choose a time slot as a group or individual, and be led through the experience in socially distanced groups of 6 – please see the POW! Thanet website for more details on Covid-safe arrangements for this event.
More info and book tickets
Find out more about how Scary Little Girls are celebrating the 40th anniversary of the start of the Greenham Common Women’s Peace Camp here.

Lyrical Revolutions workshop (St Austell)
2021-05-29 11:00 - 16:00, 2021-05-30 11:00 - 16:00, 2021-05-31 11:00 - 16:00, 2021-06-01 11:00 - 16:00 | St Austell Arts Centre, 87 Truro Road, St Austell, Cornwall, PL25 5HJ
Calling all women and girls! Join us for a free day of workshops at St Austell Arts Centre, where we’ll help you learn new skills, build confidence, feel empowered and try something new – whether it’s singing, banner-making or the art of protest!
For more info and to book your place, please email Vanessa (V for short) on hello@greenhamwomeneverywhere.co.uk.
Find out more about our Lyrical Revolutions project here.

Salon de la Vie - Season Four - Votes for Children
2021-06-02 19:30 - 20:00 | Scary Little Girls YouTube Channel
Season Four of Salon de la Vie will be a collaboration with Dr Naomi Paxton on everything you didn’t know about the suffragettes and their creative campaigning! We’ll combine recorded extracts, songs, special guests and live shows in this season to celebrate the wild, wonderful, wise and witty women of the first wave.
Join us on June 2nd for Votes for Children – a look at the young people who supported the suffrage movement and found their own voice in the process.
With special guest performances of original material from the campaign chosen by Naomi and songs by Pink Floyd and Lorde presented by Rebecca and her uke-a-lady, this episode promises to kick off season 4 (can you believe it?!) with fun, facts and suffrage surprises!
Did you know?

⚒︎ Marketing at suffrage fairs and exhibitions included the sale of dolls, toys, clothes, sweets, boardgames and even fairground rides!
⚒︎ Italia Conti, founder of the famous stage school, was a member of the Actresses Franchise League and produced a play with her students called Votes for Children.
⚒︎ Suffrage societies specifically for children and young people included the Drummers Union, founded in 1909 which welcomed girls and boys from ages 6 to 21 ‘to join with others in doing something, however small, towards breaking down sex and class prejudice’

Want to get in the mood? Listen to Naomi’s short radio documentary on suffrage Punch and Judy shows here.
About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
Huge thanks to DJ Stegosaurus for creating a fantastic playlist on Spotify to accompany this Season!
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Four - Birds of a Feather
2021-06-16 19:30 - 20:00 | Scary Little Girls YouTube Channel
Season Four of Salon de la Vie will be a collaboration with Dr Naomi Paxton on everything you didn’t know about the suffragettes and their creative campaigning! We’ll combine recorded extracts, songs, special guests and live shows in this season to celebrate the wild, wonderful, wise and witty women of the first wave.
Join us on June 16th for Birds of A Feather.
We will hear about plans to fill Parliament with suffragette parrots ?, talk about how the movement campaigned not just for votes for women but to end vivisection, and explore the links between vegetarianism and suffrage.
Join us with a Salty Dog cocktail ?and settle in to ruminate on the sexual politics of meat in a salon that takes in conversations with Dr Paxton and your host Rebecca, recipes from Edwardian London’s veggie scene and songs about Hounds, Hedgehogs and Rabbits…
This episode is dedicated to Keep The Ban and all the tireless work of today’s animal rights campaigners – do support Keen the Ban’s work if you can and buy one of their very fetching pins!
Did you know?
✮That George Bernard Shaw had shares in the leading vegetarian restaurant in Edwardian London?
✮That some breeds of parrots can live up to 80 years!?
✯That Kate Bush has been vegetarian since the 80’s and is outspoken about her dislike of fur wearing?

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
Huge thanks to DJ Stegosaurus for creating a fantastic playlist on Spotify to accompany this Season!
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Four - Nobody Expects the Suffragettes!
2021-06-30 19:30 - 20:00 | Scary Little Girls YouTube Channel
Season Four of Salon de la Vie will be a collaboration with Dr Naomi Paxton on everything you didn’t know about the suffragettes and their creative campaigning! We’ll combine recorded extracts, songs, special guests and live shows in this season to celebrate the wild, wonderful, wise and witty women of the first wave.
Join us on June 30th for Nobody Expects the Suffragettes!
Site specific, pop up and random acts of activism all characterised the creative shenanigans of suffragists in the theatre and entertainment industries, and in this Salon we celebrate some of the most unexpected!
Get your Lady Rebel cocktail in your hand and settle in for tales of bravery on the tube, rumbles at jumble sales and the perils of selling the suffrage newspapers, with songs that show how stirring women can be when they bend the rules!
Did you know?
✯That suffragettes were using art and pop up performances to make their points in much the same way campaigners that Extinction Rebellion do now?
✯That people trying to sell the suffragette newspapers were forced to stand in the gutter lest the police arrest them for “obstruction of the pavement”?
✯That our guest expert Dr Naomi Paxton this season has also made this short film for BBC?!

Keep an eye, or in fact an ear, out for

Here are the links to She’s Good Enough (there are loads more on Youtube), suffrage song –

Original recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFbNa_37D-s

Bernadette Peters version: https://youtu.be/Ofj_o8zP6tU

More recent version: https://youtu.be/J6pxXI_V4RM

Sheet music: https://www.loc.gov/resource/mussuffrage.mussuffrage-100123/

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
Huge thanks to DJ Stegosaurus for creating a fantastic playlist on Spotify to accompany this Season!
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Salon de la Vie - Season Four - The Woman’s Theatre
2021-07-14 19:30 - 20:00 | Scary Little Girls YouTube Channel
Season Four of Salon de la Vie will be a collaboration with Dr Naomi Paxton on everything you didn’t know about the suffragettes and their creative campaigning! We’ll combine recorded extracts, songs, special guests and live shows in this season to celebrate the wild, wonderful, wise and witty women of the first wave.
Join us on July 14th for The Woman’s Theatre. Get your stout and stormy cocktail in your hand for an exploration of the way theatre could have, and occasionally was, when women had their say! Here we will look at the way suffrage campaigners imagined a theatre they could be part of, including female producers and playwrights, crèches, and an end to the casting couch… so much to admire and yet to apply to the modern mainstream…
We’ll start by getting fun and frisky with songs from Marie Lloyd and then finishing with a delve into the world of those women, both in the Suffrage movement and without, who campaigned against the rapidly industrialising sex trade in the Victorian era – including a little known early version of The House of the Rising Sun from a woman’s point of view!
Did you know?
★Marie Lloyd was not allowed to tour the USA due to what they termed her ‘moral turpitude’!
★Thanks to the Suffrage movement, women imagined theatre’s that might work better for them all over they world, from London and America to Denmark and Japan
★Versions of The Rising Sun go back centuries as a ballad, with musicologist’s tracing it back to 16th century English bawdy houses and Louis XIV’s France.
About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
Huge thanks to DJ Stegosaurus for creating a fantastic playlist on Spotify to accompany this Season!
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

Rescheduled: LIVE SALON DE LA VIE SEASON 4 FINALE - Taking The Stage
2021-08-11 19:30 - 21:00 | Scary Little Girls YouTube Channel
Season Four of Salon de la Vie will be a collaboration with Dr Naomi Paxton on everything you didn’t know about the suffragettes and their creative campaigning! We’ll combine recorded extracts, songs, special guests and live shows in this season to celebrate the wild, wonderful, wise and witty women of the first wave.
Join us on August 11th for Taking the Stage! Our all live season finale bringing the work of Elizabeth Robins, Evelyn Glover and Cicely Hamilton to life before your very eyes!
Tickets here – book now
Coming out of not just the Suffrage but the Woman’s Theatre movements, the three women we pay tribute to with our last show of season four combine wit, wiles and radical views and between took on the institutions of marriage, the war machine and sex trafficking.
Expect digital mayhem, songs, short scenes and feminist fun for all! Tickets for this £5, the only Salon of the season we’re charging for and we are super grateful for your support!
Come hear the hosts sing and chat!
Come play our interactive quiz!
And come drink the drink with Salon host Rebecca’s version of the ultimate Summer Cup (basically Pimms but really nice!) – you will need:
– a decent summer cup, like Sipsmiths or Sacred
– a decent lemonade, like Belvoir or Fentimans
– an elderflower liquor like St Germains
– and then any ice any fruit, veg or herbs you happen to be growing
Put all this together in a big jug with an extra long straw and enjoy while you watch!

Tickets here – book now
Did you know?
★Elizabeth Robins brought Ibsen’s plays to the UK, translating, producing and performing in them.
★ Cicely Hamilton wrote a book called ‘Marriage as a Trade’ in which she points out ‘The housekeeping trade is the only one open to us—so we enter the housekeeping trade in order to live. This is not always quite the same as entering the housekeeping trade in order to love.’
★Evelyn Glover created a book entirely of photographs of cats she had met through her campaigning and theatrical life!

About Salon de la Vie
Hosted by Scary Little Girls’ Rebecca Mordan, Salon de la Vie is a series of fortnightly 15 – 20 minute extravaganzas of songs, storytelling, merriment and conversation, focusing each time on an awe-inspiring, remarkable and brave human from the world of film, music, literature and history, drawing parallels with the achievements of activists today, to celebrate how people positively embody the change they want to see in the world, for themselves and for others. And we’re super proud that each salon has a custom illustration provided by the wonderful Jacky Fleming.
Come along every other Wednesday evening to join in with our singing, celebration and joy!
We’d like to thank our amazing funders Arts Council England for supporting this project
Huge thanks to DJ Stegosaurus for creating a fantastic playlist on Spotify to accompany this Season!
About Scary Little Girls
Scary Little Girls is a vibrant, hard-working production hub whose commitment and passion for theatrical and artistic storytelling is borne out by the variety of scary little work we have created and the support we have from our scary little artists and audiences.

40th anniversary walk to Greenham Common!
2021-08-26 - 2021-09-04 | Cardiff City Hall to Greenham Common
The legendary Greenham Women’s Peace Camp has a big anniversary in 2021 – it will be 40 years since the first women marched from Wales to set up a peace camp outside RAF Greenham Common.
Our anniversary celebrations will culminate in a momentous re-creation of this march, leaving Cardiff on Thursday August 26th and arriving at Greenham on Friday September 3rd for a weekend of festivities!
(We are covid-proofing and activities will go ahead online if need be – but we are hoping to march, women, march!)
Full details on the walk from Cardiff to Greenham

Greenham Common 40th Anniversary Celebration
2021-09-05 | Greenham Common, Burys Bank Road, Thatcham, RG19 6HN
Join us on Sunday 5 September on Greenham Common for a day of celebration to mark the 40th anniversary of the day women activists first arrived at RAF Greenham Common, beginning 20 years of peace camp protests.

Click here to find more info about the Greenham Women Everywhere project and the Anniversary March from Cardiff to Greenham (26 August to 3 September).

Agatha Christie & other Shiversmiths (Torquay)
2021-09-13 19:45 - 22:00 | Torre Abbey, The King's Drive, Torquay, TQ2 5JE
‘From behind the curtains there still sounded the terrible high long-drawn scream – such a scream as Raoul had never heard. It died away with a horrible kind of gurgle. Then there came the thud of a body falling…’
From the International Agatha Christie Festival website…
Returning after their previous appearance in 2019, the award winning theatre company Scary Little Girls present an unforgettable evening of storytelling, featuring the work of Agatha Christie and other writers of the southwest, including Daphne Du Maurier, Adam Nevill and – with an unpublished mystery story to mark the centenary of his birth – the famous Devon crime writer Edmund Crispin (1921-1978).
Expect an evening of chills and thrills, dark wit and high drama from performers who have wowed audiences at Glastonbury, Port Eliot, Du Maurier, Brighton and Edinburgh festivals – and of course The International Agatha Christie Festival 2019.
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