Blog Posts

  • 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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  • Like seeing a play with its clothes off

    Saturday saw a successful first script-in-hand reading of Corseted at Morley Library where we were lucky enough to have a full room and an engaged audience.  It was fantastic to see so many local people there who had contributed to developing the script and the Alice In Bloomers team had a great time.   The…

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  • Corseted – the show, exhibition and workshops

        The Alice team will spend much of the Christmas season preparing for the two dates in January when the script-in-hand readings of Corseted at Leeds Central Library and Morley Library will mark the end of the research and development phase. I have been working closely with the costumiers to firm up ideas for the…

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