The heroines explored by Heroica Theatre Company to date represent seven extraordinary women dating from 1456 – 1992. All playscripts are available for download at £10 or £5 each (see below).
The plays provide a valuable educational reference for school or adult learning programmes concerned with women’s history. The texts can be used for full scale productions or for written responses. Extension activities around the texts and eras covered are available on application to the company.
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Joan Eardley: A Private View
Joan Eardley: A Private View
Anna Carlisle’s ground-breaking new play celebrated a gifted life stopped in its prime and offered audiences an opportunity to spend time in the company of a great painter as she made her way through a life of joys, frustrations, disappointments and triumphs. In this compelling and moving promenade production, audiences came to understand what it was that fired Joan Eardley: they heard the voices of her cherished Samson children of Glasgow and the compelling ‘music’ of the Catterline storms. It was as if they were almost standing in the waves and cornfields with Joan, and they were able to experience for themselves the overwhelming impact of her finished works.
Read an extract here.