Vinegar Tom

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Event Vinegar Tom
Venue Grantham Guildhall, Grantham, England
First Date 16 May 1977
Last Date 17 May 1977
Dates Estimated No
Status Professional
World Premiere No
Part of a Tour Yes
Description "The new play is set in the middle of the seventeenth century, somewhere in the rural north of England, and [...] looks at the history of the people from the women's point of view. Vinegar Tom is the cat who belongs to Alice and her mother, women with neither husbands or property, semi-outcasts in a society which defines women's status in terms of their possession of such advantages. [...] The play carefully and evocatively unfolds the complex process whereby women such as Alice and her mother are 'made' into witches by the ignorance, superstitious and religious fears, and sexual hypocrisy of those around them. They become scapegoats for insufficiently understood events - illness, sexuality, pregnancy and abortion." (Spare Rib - A Women's Liberation Magazine)
Description Source Article
Primary Genre Theatre - Spoken Word
Secondary Genre Play with Music
Subjects Gender roles
Religion
Women
Women's Issues
Organisations
Contributors
Name Function Notes
Sue Beardon Administrator
Helen Glavin Composer
Gemma Jackson Costume Designer
Andrea Montag Designer
Pam Brighton Director
Roger Allam Musician
Josefina Cupido Musician
Ian Blower Performer
Chris Bowler Performer
Linda Broughton Performer
Gillian Hanna Performer
Mary McCusker Performer
Susan Todd Performer
Caryl Churchill Playwright
Text Nationality England
Production Nationality England
Event Status Completed
Data Source
Source Description
Newspaper Press Clippings, Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company Archive, Victoria and Albert Museum
Programme Programme, Monstrous Regiment Theatre Company Archive, Victoria and Albert Museum
Event Identifier 131223