Breaking Silence: Women and Trauma
The second episode of our podcast mini-series, Breaking Silence, features writers and practitioners who are addressing the silencing of women and giving voice to female experience through artistic mediums.
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Dash Arts' Artistic Director Josephine Burton speaks to theatre-maker Lucy Dear (All in Your Head); screenwriter and playwright Rebecca Lenkiewicz (Ida; Her Naked Skin); theatre director Athina Kasiou (A Thousand Ships); and art therapist Diane Waller. Topics range from hidden stories of domestic abuse and coercive control, to the forgotten experiences of suffragettes, to the marginalised women of classical literature, to the power of theatre to give voice to those that have been silenced.
Through conversations with a range of acclaimed speakers across a range of disciplines, Breaking Silence explores ways in which voices, stories and cultures have been silenced both in current times and recent history, when silence can be a positive force for change, and what role the arts can play in breaking silences.
Content warning: this episode contains conversation about domestic abuse and mention of suicide, so please take care while listening.
Links:
Lucy Dear’s play All In Your Head: http://www.lucydear.com/#all-in-your-head
Project Sezon, Athina Kasiou’s theatre company: https://www.project-season.org/
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s film Ida: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ida-a-film-masterpiece
Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s play Her Naked Skin: https://www.theguardian.com/stage/theatreblog/2008/aug/08/hernakedskinagutreaction
Music:
Intro music: Fakiiritanssi by Marouf Majidi
Outro music: On the Edge of your Spring by Sasha Ilyukevich
