March
2004
7777 All
Good Girlies Go To Heaven
Preview
by Olivia Winteringham, University
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'7777
All Good Girlies Go To Heaven'
Photos of rehearsals by Olivia Chappell. |
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'7777
All Good Girlies Go To Heaven' is at the University of Birmingham's
Allardyce Nicoll Studio Theatre from the 17 - 20th March. We asked
Olivia Winteringham to tell us about the performance... |
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7777
all good girlies go to heaven or so I thought they did… in
actual fact all the 'good girls' will probably go to hell - whatever
their 'hell' may be.
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7777
is a devised production created and developed by 2nd and 3rd year
undergraduate students at the University of Birmingham with performance
artist Carran Waterfield.
The tales
It tells the tales of ten condemned women who exist in a strange
space that I see as somewhere between an institution, a courtroom
and a playground.
We as performers show women as archetypes or icons of female history
that move and interact with one another taunting each other, competing
with each other, burning, hanging and destroying our babies in front
of one another.
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All Good Girlies Go To Heaven' |
The
piece has been interpreted by all ten of us performers in different
ways. Caroline Jones who plays the character of Ruth Ellis, the
last woman to be hanged in Britain, believes that the piece is about
judgement and:
"the constant threat of trial and punishment for everything
we do. It is also about women: intellectualising, suffering at the
hand of emotion, using our sexuality as a tool. The concepts of
the piece are endless and this is what I love about it."
"She is a reclusive, press-fearing
woman obsessed with her own death and as well as a shark..."
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