Staging Violence Against Women and Girls

This collection brings together three international and contemporary plays that each denounce violence against women alongside interviews with the creators and practitioners who brought them to life.<br/><br/>With interviews with writers directors and producers who discuss the conception and staging of their plays their hope is to de-glamourize the staging of violence to give voice to the survivors of gendered violence and to create awareness and empathy within the audiences. <br/><br/><i>Little Stitches</i> (London 2014): four short pieces by Isley Lynn Raúl Quirós Molina Bahar Brunton and Karis E. Halsall on the issue of Female Genital Mutilation as seen from the point of view of by-standers health professionals women who support the practice and finally survivors. <br/><br/>'Kubra' (Sydney 2016) by Dacia Maraini features a young female protagonist who was subjected to FGM/C as a child and now brings her case to court. <br/><br/><i>Rape Trial</i>(Rome 2018) adapted for theatre by Renato Chiocca from the international award-winning documentary of the same title made for Italian state television in 1979 shows how attitudes toward sexual violence and judicial procedures tend to turn rape survivors from accusers into accused in court and in everyday discourse.