The Vagina Monologues 20 years on, French crime drama Spiral
The Vagina Monologues writer on adding episodes 20 years after the original publication and feminist play writing today. Also, a guide to Paris-based French cop show Spiral.
The 1996 radical feminist theatre piece, The Vagina Monologues, made a huge impact in America and around the world as well as inspiring V-Day, an organisation working to stop violence against girls and women. As the writer Eve Ensler updates it with some contemporary voices, we ask about the original production and why now is the right time to revisit it.
We also look at feminist theatre in Britain today. In an age where so many people describe themselves as feminist, what defines a play as such? Which issues are being explored, and are dramatic techniques, such as shocking language and violence, employed in the same way as in the past? Theatre critic Sam Marlowe and playwright Phoebe 脡clair-Powell discuss.
With the return of French tv crime drama Spiral to 大象传媒 Four, critic Adrian Wootton gives us a guide to this cult series, and explains why it's worthy of a bigger audience in the UK.
Presenter : Samira Ahmed
Producer : Dymphna Flynn.
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The Vagina Monologues 20 years on
Duration: 08:29
Feminist writing in today's theatre
Duration: 08:23
French crime drama Spiral
Duration: 06:39
The nominations for the 2017 Baftas
Duration: 03:10
The Vagina Monologues 20 years on
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The updated 20th anniversary edition of is out now in in paperback.
Images:
Main image above: Eve Ensler
Image credit: Brigitte Lacombe
Image to the left: Eve Ensler
Image credit: Jeff Vespa
French crime drama Spiral
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Series 6 of is on 大象传媒 4 on Saturdays at 9.00pm聽, and on the 大象传媒 iPlayer.
Image: from left: Thierry Godard as Gilou; Caroline Proust as Laure Berthaud; Fred Bianconi as 'Tintin' Fromentin.
Image credit: Sone et Lumiere/Canal +
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Role Contributor Presenter Samira Ahmed Interviewed Guest Eve Ensler Interviewed Guest Sam Marlowe Interviewed Guest Phoebe Eclair-Powell Interviewed Guest Adrian Wootton Producer Dymphna Flynn Broadcast
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