Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Saturday, 25 August 2012
'My Bloody Laundrette' selected for the SheWrites showcase
Since our last blog post it has been a busy old time for Ali and Debs.
Debs has been festivaling hard at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, enjoying many great shows and catching up with friends and family in her home land. Read all about it in her blog: https://deborahklayman.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/the-best-of-the-fest-2012/
Ali was performing at the CockSquat festival for emerging artists in London in The Echo Chamber with the salon:collective. Ten writers each produced a monologue, inspired by the one before. This collection of beautiful writing was performed and each monologue threaded together with music from the salon:orchestra. The shows received a great reception and indeed the whole festival, which ends tonight, has been the start of something wonderful. We are looking forward to more in the future.
http://thecockpit.org.uk/squat
But perhaps the biggest news since our last blog is that My Bloody Laudrette, a short play which we wrote to submit for the 17Percent SheWrites showcase - see our July 11th blog post - has been selected. Whoop! A rehearsed reading of the play will be performed on Wednesday 12th September 2012. We will be there and maybe we will see you there too!
She Writes presents ‘What is art?’
12 September 2012, 7pm
The Horsebridge Centre bar-cafe,
Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AF
£5/4 concs
http://17percent.wordpress.com/
Debs has been festivaling hard at the 2012 Edinburgh Fringe, enjoying many great shows and catching up with friends and family in her home land. Read all about it in her blog: https://deborahklayman.wordpress.com/2012/08/16/the-best-of-the-fest-2012/
Ali was performing at the CockSquat festival for emerging artists in London in The Echo Chamber with the salon:collective. Ten writers each produced a monologue, inspired by the one before. This collection of beautiful writing was performed and each monologue threaded together with music from the salon:orchestra. The shows received a great reception and indeed the whole festival, which ends tonight, has been the start of something wonderful. We are looking forward to more in the future.
http://thecockpit.org.uk/squat
But perhaps the biggest news since our last blog is that My Bloody Laudrette, a short play which we wrote to submit for the 17Percent SheWrites showcase - see our July 11th blog post - has been selected. Whoop! A rehearsed reading of the play will be performed on Wednesday 12th September 2012. We will be there and maybe we will see you there too!
She Writes presents ‘What is art?’
12 September 2012, 7pm
The Horsebridge Centre bar-cafe,
Whitstable, Kent CT5 1AF
£5/4 concs
http://17percent.wordpress.com/
Friday, 20 July 2012
Can feminists be funny?
This week, as we continue writing on our top secret new project we were very interested to hear the discussion on BBC Radio 4's Woman's hour: can feminists be funny? Well as two women who are endeavouring to write a play packed with LOLs, we certainly hope so. The women from Funny Women we met at this year's WOW festival at the South Bank would definitely say so. Find out more about their Funny Women Award Semi Finals this week and their forthcoming Edinburgh shows at http://www.funnywomen.com/
On the same episode of Woman's hour last Friday, they also interviewed Juliet Lyon from the Prison Reform Trust about their findings that only half of all women on remand receive visits from their families as with only 13 women's prisons in the country, women are often taken far from their family networks. Susan Calman was also joined by an ex-offender who talked about her own experiences of this. This was an issue that struck us while we were researching eXclusion as taking women far away from their support networks and indeed their children, can have far reaching implications.
At the time of writing this post, you can still listen to the broadcast but it is not clear on the website for how long:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kksqw
In other news:
Deborah Klayman battles London's commuters with cello! And on that bombshell.....
Til next time
Ali & Debs
On the same episode of Woman's hour last Friday, they also interviewed Juliet Lyon from the Prison Reform Trust about their findings that only half of all women on remand receive visits from their families as with only 13 women's prisons in the country, women are often taken far from their family networks. Susan Calman was also joined by an ex-offender who talked about her own experiences of this. This was an issue that struck us while we were researching eXclusion as taking women far away from their support networks and indeed their children, can have far reaching implications.
At the time of writing this post, you can still listen to the broadcast but it is not clear on the website for how long:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01kksqw
In other news:
Til next time
Ali & Debs
Wednesday, 11 July 2012
But I'm the only Smurfette in the village!
So, while Whoop 'n' Wail's current project is coming on nicely, Ali & Debs took a little time out this week to write a short play - just 6 pages long - on the theme of 'What is art?' for the next 17percent She Writes showcase for short plays by women. A lot of fun was had coming up with ideas and characters for the story and by giving ourselves just the afternoon and evening to complete the play, we were somewhat stepping out of our comfort zone. We are pleased with the result. My Bloody Laundrette will be submitted for the showcase and we'll let you know if we are selected!
http://17percent.wordpress.com/
We have been particularly enjoying the work of Anita Sarkeesian this week and indeed her blog The Feminist Frequency, inspired us for My Bloody Laundrette. Anita is a feminist pop culture media critic and her video blogs are both entertaining and fascinating. Check out her discussions on film, in particular The Smurfette Principle and The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies - a simple test to check how present women are in films and how well rounded their characters are - shocking and unsurprising in equal measure.
http://www.feministfrequency.com/category/movies/
We'd be interested in your thoughts.
Best to you all
Ali & Debs
http://17percent.wordpress.com/
We have been particularly enjoying the work of Anita Sarkeesian this week and indeed her blog The Feminist Frequency, inspired us for My Bloody Laundrette. Anita is a feminist pop culture media critic and her video blogs are both entertaining and fascinating. Check out her discussions on film, in particular The Smurfette Principle and The Bechdel Test for Women in Movies - a simple test to check how present women are in films and how well rounded their characters are - shocking and unsurprising in equal measure.
http://www.feministfrequency.com/category/movies/
We'd be interested in your thoughts.
Best to you all
Ali & Debs
Tuesday, 3 July 2012
Working away on our latest project (shhh) at The Poetry Cafe in Central London and were delighted to hear two police officers on motorbikes literally Whooping outside! Glad to know they are supporting our work....
As well as working hard on the new material and focusing on ways to promote and develop the company, including forging new links with like-minded peeps, we are eagerly awaiting the start of August and this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Although WnW will not be producing a show there this year we will be enjoying the Festival and the Edinburgh ambiance, researching and networking, seeing as many shows as we can manage and supporting some of our friends who are performing this year:
The Ruby Dolls
Bekka Bowling & Shane Todd
Patrick Monahan
South Hill Park Arts Centre
We will be posting our must see shows and recommendations throughout the Fringe - see you there! ;-)
Ali & Debs
As well as working hard on the new material and focusing on ways to promote and develop the company, including forging new links with like-minded peeps, we are eagerly awaiting the start of August and this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Although WnW will not be producing a show there this year we will be enjoying the Festival and the Edinburgh ambiance, researching and networking, seeing as many shows as we can manage and supporting some of our friends who are performing this year:
The Ruby Dolls
Bekka Bowling & Shane Todd
Patrick Monahan
South Hill Park Arts Centre
We will be posting our must see shows and recommendations throughout the Fringe - see you there! ;-)
Ali & Debs
Monday, 5 March 2012
WOW! Women of the World
Well, it feels a bit late to be saying happy 2012 but having taken a well earned break after the fantastic experience that was eXclusion, Ali and Debs are busy working on more Whoop 'n' Wail projects. We are very excited to be starting work on our second play - don't want to give anything away at this stage but watch this space - and last month we filmed For Better Or Worse, written by Debs and directed by Rakesh Mohun and Jairus Obayomi.
This week from the 8th - 11th March, Ali and Debs will be at the Women of the World extravaganza at the South Bank Centre, London. Having been involved in a consultation meeting during the planning of this event, we have been invited to be mentors and their 'Speed Mentoring' sessions during the weekend. For more information about this and for the full and fantastic programme of events, follow this link:
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/wow
See you there.
Ali & Debs
This week from the 8th - 11th March, Ali and Debs will be at the Women of the World extravaganza at the South Bank Centre, London. Having been involved in a consultation meeting during the planning of this event, we have been invited to be mentors and their 'Speed Mentoring' sessions during the weekend. For more information about this and for the full and fantastic programme of events, follow this link:
http://ticketing.southbankcentre.co.uk/wow
See you there.
Ali & Debs
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