The Female of the Species - new comedy play July 15, 2008
Posted by Andy in : Vaudeville, comedy, female of the species , trackback
** Find Cheap Tickets for Female of the Species**
The Female of the Species
“The Female of the species” is the title of a song from Space which was a big hit in the early nineties and gets rolled out as a soundtrack to TV stories about spiders or women.
It’s also the title of a play by Joanna Murray-Smith which previews this week at the Vaudeville Theatre in London where it is set to run until October 2008. The play is an Australian export in the form of a comedy/farce which explores the roles of motherhood and celebrity feminism.
Dame Eileen Atkins plays the lead role of Margot Mason, a 1970s feminist pioneer having authored “The Cerebral Vagina” and other bestsellers.
The play was initially inspired by an event in April 2000 when Germaine Greer was “held captive in her home by a deluded young student” but that’s just a departure point for a work of fiction and Germaine Greer herself has criticised the play saying in a Sunday Times interview that “Murray-Smith is an insane reactionary who boasts that she has not read a single feminist text. She holds feminism in contempt.”
Also starring Con O’Neill (Blood Brothers) and Anna Maxwell Martin (Midsomer Murders, Doctor Who)
Is more deadly than the male.
Here’s the Space video of the young Liverpudlians performing the classic hit The female of the species
** Find Cheap Tickets for Female of the Species**
No comments yet.