Funny Peculiar & Siege: Two Plays by Little Cog

By Vici Wreford-Sinnott

Funny Peculiar

Zsa Zsa, Raquelle, Blanche and Cuba are in quarantine - four disabled women locked down, locked in, shut up and shouted down.

While the rest of the nation is in meltdown, it takes a lot to phase this quartet.

The new terrain is worrying and frustrating but these women are

• Language: English
• Publisher: Salamander Street Modern Plays
• Release date: May 6, 2021
• ISBN: 9781914228056

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First published in 2021 by Salamander Street Ltd.

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ISBN: 9781914228063

Printed and bound in Great Britain

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Contents

Little Cog

Context

Funny Peculiar

Siege

Acknowledgements

About Little Cog

Little Cog is a disabled-led theatre company based in the North East of England, founded by Artistic Director Vici Wreford-Sinnott in 2011. The company seeks to put the hidden stories and experiences of disabled people centre-stage, whilst challenging entrenched historical and medical perceptions of disability and disabled people. We explore and celebrate an extraordinary social phenomenon with phenomenally talented disabled theatre actors, writers, artists, designers, thinkers and practitioners. We aim to complete the contemporary cultural landscape with beautiful, powerful, witty and challenging work. We explode the stage with new protagonists, new narratives and new or forgotten stories.

We also have a belief in sharing our knowledge and experience in the area of Disability Equality in the arts and we offer training and workshops, talks, keynote speeches and conference provocations.

www.littlecog.co.uk

About Vici Wreford-Sinnott

Vici is a British disabled theatre writer/director, screenwriter, activist and equality strategist whose work tours nationally and internationally, and now digitally. She is a leading figure in the UK Disability Arts movement.

Vici is currently under commission from BBC Culture in Quarantine, and is collaborating with award-winning Guardian journalist, Frances Ryan to adapt her book Crippled. Vici is also under commission from ARC Stockton where she is an Associate Artist, Northern Stage, DadaFest and Home Manchester for an exciting new digital broadcast project to be announced soon. Vici is working on a radio play called Half Way There and is creating a new piece for the stage, Useless Fucker, with Live Theatre and ARC Stockton

In 2020 Vici was commissioned by Home Manchester and ARC Stockton to create a short film – Siege – which is a 12-minute character piece focusing on Mim, a wannabe cabaret artist trying to get a gig, starring Philippa Cole. This was followed by a Northern Stage, ARC and Arts Council funded digital broadcast piece called Funny Peculiar starring Liz Carr, Mandy Colleran, Bea Webster and Vici herself. It was hugely successful and has transferred to digital on-demand platforms at The Space, Thespie and