“Feminism has emancipated us and raised our expectations, but unfortunately in the process we have found ourselves yoked to a timetable that ignores the constraints of our biological clocks.” Read what Simona Hughes told us about why she wrote her new play exploring the fertility timebomb, About 500, then book your tickets!
NEWS: Fertility tale About 500 receives UK premiere at VAULT Festival
Simona Hughes’ new play about eggs, time and the cruel lack of both, About 500, will premiere as part of London’s Vault Festival later this spring. Time to book your tickets!
TURKEY – Hope Theatre
Frankie Meredith’s script has a solid, viable core, but the short, episodic scenes spanning a long time period make for a skeletal whole that feels like the first act of a longer play.
MOSQUITOES – National Theatre
The question that always needs to be asked of any example of science on stage, and there are now very many, is this: does the science add anything to the meaning of the play?
MOSQUITOES – National Theatre
The question that always needs to be asked of any example of science on stage, and there are now very many, is this: does the science add anything to the meaning of the play?
Edinburgh Fringe: Queen Lear
What happened to King Lear’s wife? The woman who birthed the three daughters that he loves so dearly is never mentioned in his title play. Back in the ’80s, the Women’s Theatre Group and Elaine Feinstein created Lear’s Daughters, a flawed, feminist play attempting to reason why Goneril and Regan do what they do by depicting the girls’ upbringing.
The Quiet House: The easiest & hardest thing I’ve ever written
It may not sound too dramatic to most people but starting a family is for some the most treacherous of journeys. Full of hope, heartbreak and at times hilarity, there is a silent epidemic of infertility going on in this country, and clinics both private and NHS are packed full of desperate, hopeful and embarrassed people who are doing everything they can to get the family they so desperately need.