Corseted

  • Changing Diaries

    If you switch off when writers start talking about how they fill their diaries then do click off the screen now. If you’re still here – hello and happy New Year! I’m going to start by returning to 2016. With regards to writing, that year was an exciting one for me. There was the release…

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  • Corseted

    We were awarded a Grants For The Arts grant by the Arts Council and by Leeds Inspired to research and develop a one act show inspired by historical Morley figure Alice Cliff Scatcherd.  The project was originally called Alice In Bloomers and was researched with the help of the Morley community and local academics including…

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  • Head Above The Parapet

    The final script-in-hand reading at Room 700, Leeds Central Library drew quite a crowd. Twenty audience members came direct from the Pinched Waist workshop where had they found out more about the history of the corset, some of them even squeezing into the sample corsets that Allana Marsh had brought along. It was a rewarding…

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  • Don’t ‘act’

    This is a busy week for the Alice In Bloomers project. It began with Allana Marsh’s Victorian Embellishments workshop yesterday, will continue today at 5.30 pm with Wearing Purple, a creative writing workshop, which I will be running, and culminate in Saturday’s Pinched Waist workshop and the final script-in-hand show of Corseted.  We have sold out…

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