Bechdel Theatre Podcast

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Welcome to the Bechdel Theatre Podcast! Bechdel Theatre is directly inspired by the famous Bechdel Test which looks at gender representation in film - only now British theatre is under the microscope... Co-hosted by Beth Watson and Pippa Sa Tweet us your thoughts at @bechdeltheatre or head over to our website www.bechdeltheatre.com for upcoming shows and events!

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Episodes

Ep 3. Homegrown and The Diary of A Hounslow Girl with Firdos Ali and Shaneela Rowah Al-Qamar

Episode 3 - #BringAFeministFriend special on representations of Muslim girls, with Firdos Ali and Shaneela Rowah Al-Qamar talking about Homegrown and Hounslow Girl. Firdos Ali is a playwright, currently writing a musical which will be previewed at Theatre Royal Stratford East . Firdos is co-curator of the Bunker Without Borders , and has 2 pieces of work being staged at the Bunker on April 4th and 8th. Firdos' #FeministFaves were Deeya Khan of sister-hood.com , Edna Adan who founded a hospital f...

Apr 04, 2017•35 min

Live from VAULT Festival

This week join Beth and Pippa for their very special second episode from deep in the underground at Vault Festival! Our special guests include Bella Heesom who talks about her autobiographical play My World Has Exploded A Little Bit, Lekhani Chirwa actor and host of the Creative Juice Podcast and Georgina Bobb, our #bringafeministfriend guest who is a TV production co-ordinator, managing director of TV Jobs UK and Bipolar activist. We question what can TV and Theatre can learn from each other? I...

Feb 11, 2017•59 min

Welcome to Bechdel Theatre!

Originally created as a Twitter campaign in 2015 by Beth Watson and now a 50-minute women-in-theatre audible feast! Bechdel Theatre is directly inspired by the famous Bechdel Test which looks at gender representation in film - only now british theatre is under the microscope. In this first episode Beth and her co-host Pippa discuss whether subverting gender on stage, as seen in Panto, can still pass the Bechdel Test requirements... Also discussed is Emma Rice's departure from Shakespeare's Globe...

Dec 17, 2016•50 min

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