Get Mad: A Monologue Workshop for Pelvic Pain Princesses
11.30am - 12.25pm
Writer and producer Alice Barber has had Vulvodynia (persistent and unexplained pain in the vulva) for 10 years. After 9 years of feeling angry and sad, she decided to channel it all into something fun: a musical called ‘The V Word’. And it’s been pretty cathartic! Join Alice in an informal writing workshop, journeying into the art of tackling anger, shame and taboo through creativity. What is your experience of pelvic pain? What do you wish other people knew? What really makes you mad? Leave with your own short monologue: to perform, to burn, or to simply scream into the void. Silence is a cage that keeps us isolated-let’s break out of it together!
Location: Board Room
Alice Barber
Alice is a Writer, Creative Producer and Theatre maker from Leeds with a one-track mission:to raise awareness about and de-stigmatise pelvic pain. She currently works for social justice theatre company Red Ladder, and previously ran Front Room Productions and feminist theatre company Unsung Collective. Previous writing credits include the short film‘Seize the Day’, ‘Whodunnit at the Coliseum’ (commissioned by Oldham Coliseum Theatre)and ‘We Are Outlaws’ (commissioned by the Centenary Cities to celebrate the centenary of women’s suffrage in the UK). Alice’s recent musical about pelvic pain, ‘The V Word’, has been shortlisted for the Kay Mellor Writing Fellowship, long listed for the RSC’s 37 Plays, and has been picked up by a development executive for television.