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The Women's Centre
You are warmly invited to our performance of "The Women's Centre" on 12-13 April 2023 at Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, E2 6HG.
Doors 6:00pm for a 6.30pm performance.
The play is set within the course of a working day at a fictional Women's Centre in East London. It is a peek behind the curtain into the world of charity - through exploring the frictions and contradictions at play in the sector, it asks questions of who holds the power and whether it could be redistributed to benefit the whole system. Most of all, it's an ode to sisterhood and the transformative power of community spaces filled with warmth and heart.
Our Women's Centre is brought to life by a diverse group of women with a shared longing for healing and mutual empowerment.
Our focus has always been on the process rather than the product; the clue is in our name, The Play is Not the Thing. The performance you will see is the completion of 10 weeks of coming together as women to celebrate, unite and empower one another - through a process of creative workshops featuring dance, body percussion, yoga, poetry and play. Exploring the therapeutic potential of making art, we recognise that we need much more than professional services to have our basic needs met in order to thrive, not just survive, in the world. It takes a village to lift a woman.
We hope you will feel empowered and entertained by the performance... we cant wait to welcome you to our Women's Centre.
Ticket proceeds go to the Carl Halling Foundation, which provides funding to open up access to the arts.
There will be mention of domestic violence in the play, so please be mindful of this when considering booking if you have lived experience of this.
Cast:
Host (Bia) - Abigail Kwao
Dee - Shelley Corsinie
Phoebe - Eliza Halling
Katya - Anna Wooding
Mary - Rujenne Green
Joe / Sabrina - Maelle Pelisson
Chelsey - Michelle Baker
Emily - Kim Weekes
Rob - Louise Wellby
Sofia - Jennifer Zarza Martinez
Directed by Louise Wellby
Written by Eliza Halling
Produced by Louise Wellby and Eliza Halling
Staging: Jaquie Holland
Promo Support: Anna Wooding and Yushana Fagan
Director of Photography: Kash Khan
Filming: Kean Cao
Photo credit: Kash Khan
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LocationOxford House Theatre (View)
Derbyshire Street
London E2 6HG
United Kingdom
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| Minimum Age: 18 |
| Wheelchair Accessible: Yes! |
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