Thursday 8th March to Saturday 10th March 1984
Directed by Isobel D'Arcy
A Bench Theatre Fringe Production staged (free of charge) after 'The Accrington Pals' on the last 3 nights of the run.
Narrator | David Penrose |
Readers | Jacquie Penrose, Robbie Cattermole Gina Cameron, Jo German, Isobel D'Arcy |
Hecuba from 'The Trojan Women' by Euripides | Isobel |
From 'Lysistrata' by Aristophanes | Gina, David |
'The Rape' by Isobel D'Arcy | Jo |
'Yvette's Song' from Mother Courage by Brecht | Jacquie |
La Pucelle (Joan of Arc) from 'Henry VI' by Shakespeare | Gina |
Queen Elizabeth I's speech at Tilbury 1588 | Robbie |
Margaret Thatcher, House of Commons, April 1982 | Robbie |
From 'Women in the Civil War' | Isobel, Jacquie |
Comment on Greenham Common | Robbie |
Member of 'Women and Families for Defence' | Gina |
Member of CND | Isobel |
'The Cenotaph' by Charlotte Mew (1919) | Jo |
Florence Nightingale | Jacquie Gina |
The American Committee, Boer War | Robbie |
From the biography of Lady Randolph Churchill | Jo |
From 'The Testament of Youth' by Vera Brittain | Jacquie |
From Memories of World War II | Isobel |
From 'The Siege of Leningrad' | Gina |
Couplet by Gioconda Bell | Robbie |
'To Commander Marcos' by Gioconda Bell | Jo |
War Song by Dorothy Parker | Jacquie |
'Zeppelin Raid' by Beatrice Webb | Gina |
'The Bombers' by Sarah Churchill | Isobel |
'1943' by Sarah Churchill | Robbie |
Hiroshima - Fumiko Nonaka | Jacquie |
Nagasaki - Toshiko Nakamura | Robbie |
From 'Rouen' by May Wedderburn Cannan | Gina |
From 'Flowers of the Volcano' by Claribel Alegria | Jo |