Staging Violence Against Women and Girls

Plays and Interviews

Isley Lynn, Raúl Quirós Molina, Bahar Brunton, Karis E. Halsall, Dacia Maraini, Renato Chiocca, Daniela Cavallaro, Luciana d'Arcangeli, Claire Kennedy, Luciana d'Arcangeli, Sharon Wood, Claire Kennedy

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781350329720
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Media & Performing Arts
• Subtopic: Theatre Playwriting

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence, along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts. Little Stitches (London, 2014): consisting of four short pieces by Isley Lynn, Raúl Quirós Molina, Bahar Brunton and Karis E. Halsall, this play presents Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) from the points of view of by-standers, anti-FGM/C activists, health professionals, women who perpetuate
the practice and, finally, survivors. 'Kubra' (Sydney, 2016): written by Dacia Maraini, this short play features a young woman who was subjected to FGM/C as a child and now, years later, brings her case to court in a search for justice. A Trial for Rape (Rome, 2018): adapted for theatre by Renato Chiocca from the international award-winning 1979 documentary of the same name, this play reveals how judicial procedures and attitudes toward sexual violence tend to turn rape survivors from accusers into accused. In their interviews, the writers, directors and producers discuss their conception and production of the works collected in Staging Violence Against Women and Girls. The plays and their creators highlight the urgency of raising awareness of these forms of violence and giving voice to survivors.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Dedication
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• About the Cover Image
• Introduction: The Stories Behind the Statistics
• Little Stitches
• Sleight of Hand
• Where Do I Start?
• Dancing Feet
• Mutant
• Interview with Melissa Dean and Alex Crampton, producer and director of Little Stitches
• Interviews with the authors of Little Stitches
• ‘Kubra’
• Interview with Dacia Maraini
• Interview with Nicolette Kay, director of the professional productions of Hurried Steps in the UK, and in Sydney in 2016
• Interview with Ainsley Burdell, director of non-professional productions of Hurried Steps in Australia and New Zealand in 2018 and 2019
• A Trial for Rape
• Interview with Renato Chiocca
• References
• Copyright