Play reading of 2 new plays and screening of Mothers and Daughters – Pascal Theatre – 5 Oct, 25 Oct & 9 November 2009
Rehearsed play-readings of two new plays by Julia Pascal
Broken English
Monday 5 October,8pm Drill Hall 2. £10,£8 conc.
The Drill Hall, 16 Chenies St, London WC1.
http://www.drillhall.co.uk/broken.
London in the freezing winder of January 1947. As British Jews struggle against the Government’s White Paper limiting Jewish entry into Palestine, a small group in the East End of London plot to murder the Foreign Secretary. Based on a real story when Zionist Londoners tried to change the shape of the world.
Woman On The Bridge
Monday 9 November, 8pm.Drill Hall 2. £10,£8 conc.
The Drill Hall, 16 Chenies St, London WC1.
http://www.drillhall.co.uk/woman
Judith, a 55-year-old Londoner, goes to New York to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge. It appears that she is killing herself after the breakdown of her marriage but does the journey from the Old World to the New reveal other reasons for self-destruction? On her journey through Manhattan she meets a 100-year-old woman, a 25-year-old actor and a Puerto Rican woman police officer before she decides whether to jump or not.
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Film screening of Mothers & Daughters
With guest speakers including Linda Bellos, Eugenie Dodd and Rachel Garfield.
A collection of 50 interviews with women of different backgrounds, ages, political and historical experiences.
Participants range from the unknown to those in the public eye, including Melanie Phillips, Linda Bellos, Oona King, Maureen Lipman, Edwina Currie, Susie Orbach, Janet Suzman, Faynia Williams and Miriam Karlin.
All interviewees were asked about feminism, identity, diaspora, exile, Israel: all gave a highly-personal vision of the last century through their family and individual experiences.
This DVD collection was produced by Julia Pascal to explore the complexity of Jewish womanhood and as an educational resource for universities, libraries and cultural institutions.
It is now housed at the Imperial War Museum, the British Library, London Metropolitan Archives and The Women’s Library.
The evening will offer a 39-minute screening which highlights clips from each woman’s interview followed by a panel talk with an open discussion to follow.
Sunday 25 October 4pm. Drill Hall l. £13, £10 conc.
http://www.drillhall.co.uk/mothers
Info: 020 7307 5060
Web: http://www.pascal-theatre.com
