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    How to Not Sink (NHB Modern Plays)
    How to Not Sink (NHB Modern Plays)
    How to Not Sink (NHB Modern Plays)
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    How to Not Sink (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Georgia Christou

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    How to Not Sink looks at duty, love and dependency across three generations of women.
    The play is taken from Women Centre Stage; a collection of eight short plays, commissioned and developed as part of the Women Centre Stage Festival, that together demonstrate the range, depth and richness of women's writing for the stage.
    Selected by Sue Parrish, Artistic Director of Sphinx Theatre, these plays offer a wide variety of rewarding roles for women, and are perfect for schools, youth groups and theatre companies to perform. Other writers included in the collection include Winsome Pinnock, Timberlake Wertenbaker and April De Angelis.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateJun 7, 2016
    ISBN9781788500593
    How to Not Sink (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Georgia Christou

    Georgia Christou took part in Young Writers’ Programmes at the Royal Court Theatre and the Lyric Hammersmith. Her debut play Yous Two was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award and was produced at Hampstead Theatre Downstairs in 2018. Other theatre includes: How To Spot An Alien (Paines Plough/Theatre Clwyd) and Rocket Girl (Royal Central School of Speech and Drama/Minack Theatre). She has also written short plays for DryWrite, Bush and Sphinx Theatre. TV includes: Through the Gates (Channel Four/Blacklight TV). She has original ideas for television in development with HillBilly films and Various Artists Ltd.

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      How to Not Sink (NHB Modern Plays) - Georgia Christou

      Georgia Christou

      HOW TO NOT SINK

      Taken from the collection

      WOMEN CENTRE STAGE

      Eight Short Plays By and About Women

      Contents

      Dedication

      Introduction

      Original Production Details

      How to Not Sink

      The Sphinx Test

      Biography

      Copyright and Performing Rights Information

      For My Comrades-in-Arms

      Dame Rosemary Squire DBE and Jules Wright

      And for Louisa, Tiffany, Helen, Ros,

      Isabel, Lisa, Ben and Joanna.

      Introduction

      Sue Parrish

      ‘Women can’t be artists, women are mothers’

      Sian Ede, Arts Council officer, 1991

      The eight plays in this volume first saw the light of day in the Women Centre Stage Festival. They were chosen to show the range, depth and richness of the work that can be created in a celebration of women artists. The Women Centre Stage Festival is an exciting cultural project designed to address and combat women’s exclusion from UK theatre. Sphinx Theatre, founded as the Women’s Theatre Group in 1973 and renamed in 1990, has been in the vanguard of advocating and inspiring women in the arts through productions, conferences and research for four decades. As a kind of feminist-theatre think tank, we initiated the breakthrough Glass Ceiling conferences in the 1990s at the National Theatre, and more recently from 2009, four Vamps, Vixens and

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