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Women's Centre Tour
** we will close ticket reservations at 10am on Saturday 14/10/23 for the performance at Round Chapel - so please do book in before that, as there will only be enough seats for those who have reserved!
We are delighted to announce that after a sell-out run at Oxford House earlier this year, the Women's Centre is making a local tour!
We are so looking forward to welcoming more audiences for an evening of theatre and sisterhood. Do come and join us, absolutely everyone is welcome.
The Women's Centre Play:
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.
TOUR DATES
14 October 2023 Round Chapel Old School Rooms, 2 Powerscroft Road, London, E5 0PU | 4:30pm
7 November 2023 Bromley by Bow Centre, St Leonard's St, London E3 3BS | 6:30pm
22 November 2023 Oxford House, Derbyshire St, Bethnal Green, London E2 6HG | 6:45pm
Audience reviews:
-- "The play was so uplifting the sense of sisterhood and community that was created was inspiring to see And the serious messages about power and the charity sector were interspersed with humour and humanity we so enjoyed ourselves!"
-- "I adore the way that by building a community of women to create the show, it feels that the team practiced what they preached."
-- "The play was fantastic. I thought the themes ranging from, motherhood, safety, domestic abuse, overworking, bureaucracy etc were amazingly handled. I think that ultimately the play managed to touch on a very difficult issue but provided a very hopeful and uplifting message."
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 is always 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 cannot wait to welcome you to our Women's Centre.
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, in order of appearance:
Host (Bia) - Abigail Kwao
Dee - Shelley Corsinie
Phoebe - Eliza Halling
Ama - Abigail Kwao
Mary - Helen Kennedy
Joe / Sabrina - Maha Shami
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
Production Assistant - Maha Shami
Art and Ilustration: Maha Shami
Director of Photography: Kash Khan
Instagram: @theplayisnotthething
Website: theplayisnotthething.org
*dogs unfortunately cannot be accommodated, unless they are assistance dogs
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London - various
London E2 6HG
United Kingdom
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