PLEASE READ THIS BY MY FRIEND MIRYAM LOFTI ……… #MahsaAminiمهساامینی “In the name of the God of the rainbow” : For Kian Pir Falak, the 10-year-old child who was shot on 16th Nov. 2022 in southern part of Iran in the protests of “Women- Life- Freedom” @MaryamLotfi4 FULL TEXT AND PHOTOS HERE Over the last nine […]
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Thrilled to be one of thirty artists selected for performance at the magnificent Arcola Theatre in East London at 8pm on Saturday 30 July 2022. The exciting anthology of entertainment is a MIND fundraiser focussing on women’s mental health. We are all providing one minute of performance, and my script “Lovesick” is a monologue by […]
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ADELINA: The true story of Queen Victoria’s favourite superstar soprano, who ignited a sex scandal by abandoning a brutish husband for her leading man: bold theatre with opera music about a woman’s right to find her own voice and make her own story. It’s a brand new thing: a play with opera music! See the […]
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a life and death tale of farmers, fertilisers and fairies, with a Shakespearean twist What an honour that on 29 April Sherman Theatre Cardiff staged a script-in-hand performance of my play Damselfly about water pollution and the loss of precious wildlife, through one Welsh woman’s fight to halt a polluting intensive chicken farm, with […]
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We are not numbers by Salma Yusuf My friend Salma wrote this brilliant poem and read it at the UEA Ukraine fundraiser where my play was performed last Thursday.
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What is the use of writing a play in response to the war? Well, it allowed me to deal with some of the overwhelming sense of grief and impotence, and it will be performed as part of a fundraiser for Ukraine at UEA where I’m currently studying. It won’t help to stop the war, but […]
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Wednesday 9 December on BBC4 23.00 (11pm) The Man was Flinders Petrie, an eccentric Brit who set off to measure the Egyptian pyramids, and went on to establish the theory and practice of modern archaeology. Clips available here https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01f13f4 Presenter Chris Naunton, Exec Producer Christina Macauley, and none of us can remember how many times […]
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//www.youtube.com/watch?v=GcypKzDtg1c Someone just sent me this link to post screening Q+A back in 2014 – I didn’t realise it was online – thanks!
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I am currently working with my old friend and BBC mentor Angela Holdsworth, on a collection of video biographies of women lawyers. The First Hundred Years project celebrates the centenary of women entering the legal profession in 1919, following the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act. It’s been a great pleasure to interview some of the most […]
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Delighted to report that Bastards has been selected by two Turkish women’s film festivals, the International Filmmor Women’s Film Festival on Wheels, and the Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival in Ankara in May. Filmmor started 12 years ago “by women and for women” with the words “women make movies”, sets out on its journey […]
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