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Ep 6 - Come As You Are Festival

Bechdel Theatre Podcast

Release Date: 09/16/2017

Little Miss Burden with Matilda Ibini show art Little Miss Burden with Matilda Ibini

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is a playwright and screen-writer from East London. She is the writer of Little Miss Burden, a five-star-reviewed coming-of-age tale that smashes together 90s nostalgia, Nigerian family, East London and Sailor Moon to tell the sometimes tricky, often funny truth about growing up with a physical impairment.    Matilda also recently worked as dramaturg on Eve Leigh’s Midnight Movie, a new play exploring what it is like to have a digital body, when your physical body is always glitching and letting you down.   is at The Bunker until Dec 21   is at The Royal Court until...

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Islamophobia and Trojan Horse with Madiha Ansari show art Islamophobia and Trojan Horse with Madiha Ansari

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Madiha Ansari specialises in cultural engagement, specifically for communities of South Asian women. She is the founder and director of arts-based social enterprise The Cultural Ecology Project which aims to make art accessible to those in the most deprived and vulnerable areas of society.  You can contact her at  or follow her at Madiha's #feministfaves were the Cate Blanchet and the Pakistani movie   Pippa’s is Beth's is   More recommendations...   The Bunker Nov 17 & 18  & is on until 23rd November. Use ticket discount to join us for our...

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Red Palace show art Red Palace

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is a singer, pianist, performer, and tutor currently playing Mermaid, Baba Yaga in Red Palace.   is a performer, actor, and drag-dabbler currently playing Prince, Wolf, and an unnamed mystery character in Red Palace.   is a Shotgun Carousel production, written by Cressida Peever and directed by Celine Lowenthal. It’s running at The Vaults until January 12.   Porscha’s #FeministFaves are femmes with facial hair, the online community founded by Adwoa Aboah, and the model .   Milly’s #FeministFave is the tattoo artist who focuses on tattooing as a sacred and ancient...

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Parakeet with Brigitte Aphrodite & Michelle Tiwo show art Parakeet with Brigitte Aphrodite & Michelle Tiwo

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This is the fourth episode in a series of podcasts covering Edinburgh Fringe 2019.  Listen back to the previous episodes with , , and , and look out on our social media for tour dates to see their shows.   You can now with a monthly donation of $1.   is a punk poet, musician, writer, theatre maker and feminist showgirl. Brigitte is the writer of Parakeet, and performs as a parakeet underscoring the show.   is an actor, poet and model, and the lead performer in Parakeet. Brigitte’s #FeministFaves are…   Music: , , , , , , Books: , ’s books for children &...

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"Carnival is Gay as Shit" in Splintered with Emily Aboud & Charlotte Dowding

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is the director and writer of    is one of the three performers in Splintered.   Splintered is a production which uses cabaret, carnival, and recorded interviews with LGBTQ+ people in Trinidad and Tobago to tell the stories of Queer people in the Caribbean. It’s on   Emily’s #FeministFaves are soca artist & dancehall artist . Charlotte’s #FeministFave is , and her book .   Other #EdFringe shows mentioned in this episode... at Assembly George Square at 12:10  at Assembly Roxy at 15:45 every other day (listen to our previous episode featuring )...

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Burgerz with Travis Alabanza show art Burgerz with Travis Alabanza

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is a performer, writer and theatre-maker based in London (via Bristol). Their show is on at the Traverse Theatre at varying times until August 25th (except the 5th, 12th & 19th), and then on tour, going to Dublin, Newcastle, Glasgow, Warwick, Birmingham, Bristol, and London’s Southbank Centre. Travis’ #FeministFave is community activist, writer, trainer & facilitator .   Pippa’s #FeministFave is singer-songwriter .   Beth’s #FeministFave is the organisers of , , and . Travis’ #EdFringe show recommendations are...   Zoo Southside 14:20 (Aug 19-25th)...

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The Queer House Double Bill with Mika Johnson & Teddy Lamb show art The Queer House Double Bill with Mika Johnson & Teddy Lamb

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This episode is the first Bechdel Theatre podcast from Edinburgh Fringe 2019!   Follow us on & , and read our for constant updates of EdFringe shows to see. If you want to support our work at Edinburgh you can still do so via our , , and pages.   is a writer and performer from Nottingham. Their show is on at Assembly Roxy at 15:45 on odd dates.    is a playwright and theatre-maker from Warwickshire. Their show Since U Been Gone is on at Assembly Roxy at 15:45 on even dates.   Mika and Teddy’s shows are both being co-produced by and Theatre. The Queer...

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Salt with Selina Thompson and Rochelle Rose show art Salt with Selina Thompson and Rochelle Rose

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is an artist and performer based in Leeds, who has been creating autobiographical work since 2014.   salt. Is part of a wider body of Selina’s work looking at Black British identity. It focuses on grief, home, Afro-pessimism, the Black Atlantic, the forgetting of the UK’s colonial history and the impact that has on the daily life of Caribbean communities in the UK today.   is an actor and singer who is playing the role of The Woman in salt. for the show’s Royal Court run.   You can see until June 1st. We also recommend checking out Selina’s . which includes books,...

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Wondrous Vulva & The Vagina Museum show art Wondrous Vulva & The Vagina Museum

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Florence Schechter is the founder of the Vagina Museum, which will be the first ever bricks-and-mortar museum dedicated to vaginas, vulvas and the gynaecological anatomy. You can donate to the Vagina Museum's Crowdfunder to help them make the museum a physical reality.

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Live at VAULT 2019 with Lyn Gardner and Ava Wong Davies  show art Live at VAULT 2019 with Lyn Gardner and Ava Wong Davies

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This episode was sponsored by .   is the critic for the . In the past she has written theatre reviews for The Guardian, The Stage and The Independent. She also writes children’s novels.   writes about theatre for , The Stage, and on her own blog. Her debut as a playwright: i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) was at VAULT Festival this year.   Read what Lyn wrote about Ava’s play i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) on , and Pippa’s piece of about the play on our blog.   Ava's #FeministFave was her friend , who writes about theatre, art and...

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Lucy J Skilbeck (aka Leo) is one of the founders of award-winning theatre company Milk Presents, and writer and director of BULLISH: a new mythical play with songs, negotiating ancient and new territories in trans-masculine gender and identity. BULLISH is headlining Camden People's Theatre's Come As You Are festival of performance that interrogates and celebrates gender from cis to trans, from binary to beyond.
 
Lucy Parkinson is one of the four performers in BULLISH and stars in JOAN, also written by Skilbeck, which won critical acclaim (and a Bechdel Theatre sticker) at Edinburgh Fringe last year, and has been touring for the past year.
 
Leo's #FeministFave is performance artist David Hoyle, whose legendary anti-drag persona The Divine David became an alternative LGBTQ cult icon in the 90s, and who continues to make performances and films which address class and social issues, mainstream gay culture, and his own mental health.
 
Lucy Parkinson's #FeministFave is their Mum, who's not on Wikipedia or social media (as far as we know), but apparently goes to see all their shows, so if you want to maximise chances of crossing paths with said Mother, we recommend you book to see Parkinson in JOAN on tour, or performing as Drag King LoUis CYfer, as well as catching BULLISH at CPT.
 
Amie Taylor is the founder of LGBTQ Arts, a review website which has recently launched Raising Our Voices, an initiative to support and showcase up-and-coming LBT+ writers. Read her article on Huffington Post about why LGBTQ+ representation can't mean just cis gay men.
 
Amie's #FeministFave is actor and comedian Jessica Williams, who is the star of Netflix original romantic comedy film The Incredible Jessica James. Jessica is also one half of the brilliant 2 Dope Queens podcast.
 
Bullish is at Camden People's Theatre until Sat 30 Sept
 
Raising Our Voices is at Camden People's Theatre on the 20th & 27th Sept 
 
(You can buy tickets to see both of these in one night with CPT's 2 shows for £16 deal!)
 
Also recommended:
 
Half-Breed at Soho Theatre until Sept 30th.
 
Boudica at The Globe on until Oct 1st.
 
Turkey at The Hope Theatre 26th Sept - 14th Oct