Funny Peculiar & Siege: Two Plays by Little Cog
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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 prepared - perhaps they have waited for a moment like this their whole lives.
In a sequence of four original, cross-cutting, witty and wise monologues, broadcasting from their own homes during quarantine, these women are myth-busters giving their all to expose the lie of vulnerability.
'Acted with verve, wittily scripted, both funny and hard-hitting'
★★★★ The Stage
Siege
Siege is a short, filmed character monologue exploring what it means to be disabled and ‘looked at’. It’s from a longer-term piece of work and centres on the character of Mim (rhymes with quim). Mim is a funny, edgy radical, trying to live a subversive lifestyle right slap bang in the middle of the radar, with a shame-free approach to the disabled female body, who can’t get a gig. What’s it gonna take to change that?
“Chock-full of witty and cleverly explored disability politics and feminist issues.”
Disability Arts online
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Funny Peculiar & Siege - Vici Wreford-Sinnott
First published in 2021 by Salamander Street Ltd.
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Funny Peculiar & Siege © Vici Wreford-Sinnott, 2021
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ISBN: 9781914228063
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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