Bryony lavery biography of mahatma

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Bryony Lavery has an extensive career as a playwright for stage and radio.

Bryony lavery biography of mahatma

She trained as a teacher and worked in arts administration before forming the company Les Oeufs Malades with Jessica Higgs and Gerard Bell, who performed her first plays like Sharing and Bag. She went on to set up the feminist cabaret group Female Trouble and wrote (and performed in) several of the Drill Hall women’s pantos, as well as plays for Monstrous Regiment, Sphinx / Women’s Theatre Group, Theatre Centre, and many others.

Among her many plays are: Origins Of the Species, Witchcraze, Calamity, Her Aching Heart, Goliath, Frozen, A Wedding Story, Last Easter and Stockholm.

Extracts from the interview:

Working with Monstrous Regiment

‘I was then getting work with companies, particularly Monstrous Regiment, but also the Women’s Theatre Group I did a couple of shows for, and just being very aware that there was this explosion of furious women who suddenly