Live at VAULT 2019 with Lyn Gardner and Ava Wong Davies

This episode was sponsored by Stagedoor.

 Lyn Gardner is the critic for the Stagedoor app. In the past she has written theatre reviews for The Guardian, The Stage and The Independent. She also writes children’s novels.

 

Ava Wong Davies writes about theatre for Exeunt Magazine, The Stage, and on her own blog. Her debut as a playwright: i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) was at VAULT Festival this year.

 

Read what Lyn wrote about Ava’s play i will still be whole (when you rip me in half) on Stagedoor, and Pippa’s piece of embedded criticism about the play on our blog.

 

Ava's #FeministFave was her friend Eve Allin, who writes about theatre, art and music.

Lyn's #FeministFave was American poet and essayist Adrienne Rich.

 

Audience #FeministFaves were:

Jasmine Paris - a runner who became the first woman to win the 268 mile ultra-marathon Spine Race while breastfeeding.

Carol Christ - an academic who writes about women in religion and Goddess Feminism.

Claudia Jones - the Trinidad-born political activist and community leader who founded Notting Hill Carnival.

 

Beth’s #FeministFave was art critic duo The White Pube.

Pippa #FeministFave was menstrual product activist Amika George.

 

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