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    The Road to Huntsville (NHB Modern Plays)
    The Road to Huntsville (NHB Modern Plays)
    The Road to Huntsville (NHB Modern Plays)
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    The Road to Huntsville (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Stephanie Ridings

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    The Road to Huntsville by Stephanie Ridings is a short play about a writer researching women who fall in love with men on death row, who then finds herself crossing the line.
    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
    ISBN9781788500630
    The Road to Huntsville (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Stephanie Ridings

    Stephanie Ridings is a writer and performer based in the West Midlands. The Road to Huntsville received a Bitesize commission in 2015; after opening at the Edinburgh Fringe 2016 and winning an Arts Voice award, the work toured throughout 2017. Her recent and most notable work has been Unknown Male, Birmingham REP, which was the winner of the Peter Brook/Mark Marvin award. Her first major script, Me, Mum & Dusty Springfield, enjoyed a sell-out Edinburgh Festival and went on to be supported by The Lowry (Salford) and tour nationally. She has been Artist in Residence at Contact Theatre (Manchester) and has been commissioned to write for a range of companies including Women and Theatre, Birmingham REP’s Learning and Participation, Corby Young Actors at the Core at Corby and a radio play for Cotesbach Trust, Leicestershire.

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      The Road to Huntsville (NHB Modern Plays) - Stephanie Ridings

      Stephanie Ridings

      THE ROAD TO

      HUNTSVILLE

      Taken from the collection

      WOMEN CENTRE STAGE

      Eight Short Plays By and About Women

      Contents

      Dedication

      Introduction

      Original Production Details

      The Road to Huntsville

      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 Feminists conferences; while landmark productions include Pam Gems’ The Snow Palace and April De Angelis’ modern classic, Playhouse Creatures.

      The conferences were a forum for gathering a UK-wide network and forming a sense of solidarity among women in the arts who are often isolated. Leading women artists, academics and journalists shared their professional experiences with packed audiences. For ten years running we hired the NT’s Cottesloe Theatre for the day for the Glass Ceilings, and in 2009, thanks to the good offices of the Literary Manager Sebastian Born, we took over the Olivier Theatre for Vamps, Vixens and Feminists, a sign of dawning consciousness. Many women recount moments of inspiration from these talkshops, and the latest spin-off, Nottingham’s The Party Somewhere Else, took its name from a passing reference of mine to the feeling of exclusion women feel.

      However, by 2012 I was haunted by a feeling of extreme Groundhog Day, bearing in mind that I had been involved in campaigning for equality for women in the theatre for over thirty-five years without feeling we’d made much progress. Yes, there had been some improvement since then for women directors and writers, but the figures for female actors remained stubbornly at around 35%. The most recent figures show women writers with work produced at 28%, directors at 36%, and actors at 39%, but nowhere approaching parity for the 51% of the population who are the only majority with the status of a minority. The data shows that out of one hundred and sixty-eight Artistic Directors of Arts Council England’s National Portfolio clients, only thirty-three are women, and they control only 13% of the total ACE theatre budget. Women Centre Stage was created to address this exclusion, at a time

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