Fucking Feminists (NHB Modern Plays)

By Rose Lewenstein

Fucking Feminists by Rose Lewenstein is a fiercely funny investigation of what feminism means, and what it has become.
The play is taken from Women Centre Stage; a collection of eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage.
Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Winsome Pinnock, Timberlake Wertenbaker and April De Angelis.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Release date: Jun 7, 2016
• ISBN: 9781788500616

Rose Lewenstein

Rose Lewenstein is a writer whose plays include: Cougar (Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond, 2019); Darknet (Southwark Playhouse, 2016); Now This Is Not The End (Arcola, 2015); Game of Life (The Yard); Only Human (Theatre503); Entries on Love (Rich Mix) and Ain't No Law Against Fish 'n' Chips (Royal Court Young Writers Festival). Her play Psychoslut was featured in the Women@RADA series. She has been a member of the Royal Court's Supergroup and Young Writers Programme.

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Rose Lewenstein

FUCKING FEMINISTS

Taken from the collection

WOMEN CENTRE STAGE

Eight Short Plays By and About Women

Contents

Dedication

Introduction

Original Production Details

Fucking Feminists

The Sphinx Test

Biography

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

For My Comrades-in-Arms

Dame Rosemary Squire DBE and Jules Wright

And for Louisa, Tiffany, Helen, Ros,

Isabel, Lisa, Ben and Joanna.

Introduction

Sue Parrish

‘Women can’t be artists, women are mothers’

Sian Ede, Arts Council officer, 1991

The eight plays in this volume first saw the light of day in the Women Centre Stage Festival. They were chosen to show the range, depth and richness of the work that can be created in a celebration of women artists. The Women Centre Stage Festival is an exciting cultural project designed to address and combat women’s exclusion from UK theatre. Sphinx Theatre, founded as the Women’s Theatre Group in 1973 and renamed in 1990, has been in the vanguard of advocating and inspiring women in the arts through productions, conferences and research for four decades. As a kind of feminist-theatre think tank, we initiated the breakthrough Glass Ceiling conferences in the 1990s at the National Theatre, and more