Staging Violence Against Women and Girls

<p><i>Staging Violence Against Women and Girls</i> brings together three contemporary plays that denounce gendered violence along with interviews with their creators and the practitioners who have staged them in different national contexts. <p/><b><i>Little Stitches</i></b> (London 2014): consisting of four short pieces by Isley Lynn Raúl Quirós Molina Bahar Brunton and Karis E. Halsall this play presents Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C) from the points of view of by-standers anti-FGM/C activists health professionals women who perpetuate<br>the practice and finally survivors. <p/><b>'Kubra' </b>(Sydney 2016): written by Dacia Maraini this short play features a young woman who was subjected to FGM/C as a child and now years later brings her case to court in a search for justice. <p/><b>A Trial for Rape</b> (Rome 2018): adapted for theatre by Renato Chiocca from the international award-winning 1979 documentary of the same name this play reveals how judicial procedures and attitudes toward sexual violence tend to turn rape survivors from accusers into accused. <p/>In their interviews the writers directors and producers discuss their conception and production of the works collected in <i>Staging Violence Against Women and </i><i>Girls</i>. The plays and their creators highlight the urgency of raising awareness of these forms of violence and giving voice to survivors.</p>