Monstrous Regiment

In 1984 the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment celebrated the life of FN in a play devised by Chris Bowler and entitled Enslaved by Dreams. In Florence Nightingale: The Woman and Her Legend...

CC chose the subject in consultation with Monstrous Regiment , whose members she had met after a pro-abortion march and to whom she mentioned her hoard of witchcraft material amassed while working on Light Shining...

Another group she founded was the four-woman Female Trouble of 1981-2, for the performance of unscripted reviews. She has written and acted for many other groups, including Monstrous Regiment , Dramatrix , Theatre Centre (founded...

Two other theatre groups that profoundly influenced her career were the socialist-feminist Monstrous Regiment and the fringe collective Joint Stock , both of whom she began working with in 1976. From this...

As both a sculptor and a writer, AFgot involved in the beginnings of an innovative, radical theatre group, Welfare State , in 1968, the year it was founded. The following year she discovered...

Vinegar Tom, CC 's play about witches with no witches in it, written for the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment , opened at the Humberside Theatre in Hull.

The feminist theatre troupe Monstrous Regiment launched its first season with Scum: Death, Destruction and Dirty Washing, a play collaboratively written by CL , her husband, Chris Bond , and the company.

CC 's collaboration with Monstrous Regiment continued through the summer of 1977, when she participated in their cabaret Floorshow, along with Michelene Wandor and Bryony Lavery .

The feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment performed Floorshow, a cabaret about women and work by MW , Caryl Churchill , and Bryony Lavery .

CC is a feminist in her life as well as in her writings. She first met the members of the Monstrous Regiment on a demonstration in support of the National Abortion Campaign .

In a career spanning nearly forty years of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, the highly prolific BL has seen over sixty of her plays and other entertainments staged, mostly in London. She has...

Claire Luckham's career as a playwright was launched in 1976, when the feminist theatre group Monstrous Regiment selected Scum (a play on which she and her husband collaborated) to open their first season. Her plays...

It proved one of Monstrous Regiment 's greatest successes, drawing capacity audiences. At the Citizens' Theatre in Glasgow they had to open the gallery to increase the seating.

Floorshow was a deliberate move into the male area of cabaret (more innovative at that time than might be realised today).Time Gentlemen Please set out to handle the tricky topics of sex and...

She followed this with Calamity, 1984, again for Monstrous Regiment but performed in London with live music, in which a cast of one woman and one man present a rescripting of Calamity Jane and...