Vagina Rex & The Gas Oven by Jane Arden
Join us for an On Her Shoulders Reading of Vagina Rex and The Gas Oven by Jane Arden!
Vagina Rex & The Gas Oven (1969)
by Jane arden
Directed by Liadin stewart; Dramaturgy by Osimiri sprowal
thursday, september 17, 6:00pm @ New Perspectives Studio (458 West 37 Street @ 10th Avenue)
On Her Shoulders is pleased to present a staged reading of Vagina Rex & the Gas Oven by Jane Arden, with refreshments and a discussion to follow. Liadin Stewart, Program Manager for OHS, directs.
Arden was a ground-breaking figure in feminist theatre andVagina Rex and the Gas Oven was the first play to emerge from the Women’s Liberation Movement in Britain. It remains a radical, innovative, dark, witty and challenging piece.
The play is a powerful, interdisciplinary text about female rage and pain in heterosexual marriage. In 1969 Arden brought together the radicalism of her feminist rage with the possibilities of experimental staging when Vagina Rex and the Gas Oven appeared at Jim Haynes‘s Arts Lab Drury Lane, directed by Jack Bond and became a huge success. Arts Lab in Drury Lane was a key site in the alternative London theatre scene of the 1960’s linked to Yoko Ono and David Bowie amongst many others.
Admission is $20
Proceeds will support the On Her Shoulders Program, which rediscovers women who wrote plays from the 10th Century to 1970. There are currently almost 600 women in the FREE International database and more are being added every week!
Cast and Crew TBA.