Vagina Rex
& The Gas Oven
London Performance Studios presents Vagina Rex & The Gas Oven (1969), the first play in the Women’s Liberation Movement by Jane Arden.
The play is a powerful, interdisciplinary text about female rage and pain in heterosexual marriage, first produced in 1969. It was devised in the Arts Lab in Drury Lane, a key site in the alternative theatre scene of the 1960’s linked to Yoko Ono and David Bowie amongst many others.
Originally published by Calder and Boyars in 1971, the play has long been out of print, and will be reprinted this year for the first time in Radical Rediscovery, published by Montez Press.
The reading is part of Radical Rediscovery 1: Feminist Plays of the 1960s to 80s, a season of workshops and events programmed to celebrate the fifty–year anniversary of the first Women’s Theatre Festival at the Almost Free Theatre (1973–74).
This event was organised by Unfinished Histories, as part of the Associate Artists Programme.
Dates and Times
Vagina Rex & The Gas Oven
Fri 28 June – Sat 29 June 2024
Location
London Performance Studios, Studio 1
28/06
29/06
