An acclaimed playwright will collaborate with University of Exeter experts on a new production exploring how LGBTQ+ communities have experienced loneliness and isolation in the past and present, including during the coronavirus pandemic.
Natalie McGrath will work with researchers at the Wellcome Centre for Cultures and Environments of Health and Exeter’s Northcott Theatre to create the new piece of work. It will explore the loss of hard won social and emotional spaces which LGBTQ+ people have created to share with one another, and think about experiences of lockdown as part of a...
Today (Thursday 4 July), residents of Topsham will welcome Dreadnought South West Association into the town as they continue their journey in celebration of the centenary of The Great Suffrage Pilgrimage. At 11am, the cast of Oxygen will perform Episodes from the play outside Topsham Museum, which will be followed by a commemorative land journey to the train station and on into Exeter, where Oxygen will be performed in full (at 3pm and 7.30pm) at Rougemont Gardens. On Friday 5 July, Oxygen – which has been written by Exeter-based playwright Natalie McGrath – will be performed at the...
Imagine that fifteen women gather. They have a conversation that maps eight geographic arteries across England and Wales, like points on a compass. These arteries reach out towards a singular destination like roots forming a tree. The destination is Hyde Park. At Land’s End, a group of women start putting one foot in front of the other. For them there is no going back. It’s June 1913 and the Great Suffrage Pilgrimage begins.
Oxygen is the first production from Dreadnought South West Association, a new organisation that works with arts and heritage to champion women’s voices and...
