London Performance Studios is pleased to present Radical Rediscovery: Feminist Theatre in Britain 1969-1992, an exhibition celebrating a pivotal period of influential output from women theatre makers and playwrights.

Radical Rediscovery: Feminist Theatre in Britain 1969-1992 explores far reaching social changes that impacted the arts and set the stage for an explosion of female voices. Focusing on the richly visual and interdisciplinary work of artist and performance maker Geraldine Pilgrim and artist, writer and performer Natasha Morgan in the 1970s and 80s, this exhibition also looks at the larger history of women’s devised performance during this time and at the struggles of women directors and playwrights to gain acceptance and move towards equality. 

From the groundbreaking and outspoken feminist work of writer and film-maker Jane Arden in the1960s to the challenging and uncompromising output of Sadista Sisters and Cunning Stunts, this exhibition contextualises their work within the growing emergence of feminist performance that grew from Arden’s Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven, through the first Women’s Theatre Festival in Britain in 1973, to gradually build real and increasingly intersectional change within theatre. 

In addition, there will be a book published by Montez Press launched during the exhibition with an introduction by Susan featuring seminal plays, rarely revisited such as Jane Arden’s Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven (1969) and Ophelia by Melissa Murray (1979).

More information coming soon.

Radical Rediscovery: Feminist Theatre in Britain 1969-1992 is organised by Unfinished Histories as part of the Associate Artists Programme.