March 2004
7777 All Good Girlies Go To Heaven
Preview by Olivia Winteringham, University of Birmingham student | |
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Photos of rehearsals by Olivia Chappell. |
| | '7777 All Good Girlies Go To Heaven' is at the University of Birmingham's Allardyce Nicoll Studio Theatre from the 17 - 20th March. We asked Olivia Winteringham to tell us about the performance... |
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7777 all good girlies go to heaven or so I thought they did
in actual fact all the 'good girls' will probably go to hell - whatever their 'hell' may be.
 | | Olivia Winteringham |
7777 is a devised production created and developed by 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students at the University of Birmingham with performance artist Carran Waterfield.
The tales
It tells the tales of ten condemned women who exist in a strange space that I see as somewhere between an institution, a courtroom and a playground.
We as performers show women as archetypes or icons of female history that move and interact with one another taunting each other, competing with each other, burning, hanging and destroying our babies in front of one another.  | | '7777 All Good Girlies Go To Heaven' |
The piece has been interpreted by all ten of us performers in different ways. Caroline Jones who plays the character of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, believes that the piece is about judgement and:
"the constant threat of trial and punishment for everything we do. It is also about women: intellectualising, suffering at the hand of emotion, using our sexuality as a tool. The concepts of the piece are endless and this is what I love about it."
"She is a reclusive, press-fearing woman obsessed with her own death and as well as a shark..." CLICK HERE FOR PAGE TWO | | | |
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