100 Great Plays for Women: The World of Work

100 Great Plays for Women: The World of Work
Led by Lucy Kerbel with guest speaker Gilli Bush-Bailey

There just aren’t any good plays for women. Lucy Kerbel set out to challenge this assumption in her groundbreaking book 100 Great Plays for Women. In this series she will explore a few of these hundred.

Plays covered in this session:
A Chat with Mrs Chicky by Evelyn Glover, Nine Till Six by Aimee and Philip Stuart, Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, Contractions by Mike Bartlett and The Stepmother by Gita Sowerby.

This session is 1 of 3 included in the series
100 Great Plays for Women: Part 2 - book all 3 for £54

LUCY KERBEL is the Director of Tonic Theatre and an award-winning theatre director. Having begun her career as Resident Director at the National Theatre Studio and English Touring Theatre, Kerbel went on to direct a range of classics, new writing and productions for younger audiences. In addition to directing she does consultancy, lecturing, and works extensively in theatre education. tonictheatre.co.uk

GILLI BUSH-BAILEY is Visiting Professor in Women's Performance History at Central School of Speech and Drama, bringing together a first career as an actress with a second as an academic. She was previously in the Department of Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London, creating courses on women and comedy, 19th-century melodrama and theatre history.