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Dateline: 18th March, 2010
Political Women at the Tricycle Kilburn's Tricycle is to present a season of work focusing on the history and the current role of women in British politics, to run shortly after the forthcoming general election. Women, Power And Politics consists of nine new plays which are presented in two parts – Then and Now – to be performed on alternate evenings from 4th June to 17th July. The first part, Then, examines the history of women and politics and features new plays by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, Marie Jones, Moira Buffini and Lucy Kirkwood and covering, among others, Elizabeth I, the Suffragette movement in Ireland, the relationship between Margaret Thatcher and the Queen, and the Greenham Common protests. Playwrights Joy Wilkinson, Bola Agbaje, Zinnie Harris, Sam Holcroft and Sue Townsend present plays with a more contemporary focus for the second part of the season, Now. The five plays examine issues surrounding women’s current participation in politics, including voter apathy, candidate selection, student politics and the birth of New Labour. The new plays are accompanied by verbatim monologues edited by Gillian Slovo from interviews she has conducted with female politicians including Oona King, Edwina Currie, Clare Short, Ann Widdecombe and Jacqui Smith. In addition, the work of three emerging young playwrights Lydia Adetunji, Abbie Spallen and David Watson will be presented alongside the main season in an early evening slot called Curtain Raisers.
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