Comedian/writer Natalie Haynes is taking part in a festival entitled I'll Say It Again!, celebrating 100 years of women’s suffrage, featuring a wealth of female artists, writers, and creatives of every kind. Haynes' show on May 5 at Tara Arts in Earlsfield is entitled Honour Among Thebes.
In Haynes' latest novel, The Children of Jocasta, she takes audiences on a tour through the earliest Greek Tragedies and Comedies, from the first performance by Thespis to the raucous sex-strike of Aristophanes’ Lysistrata, via the great tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
The focus of the show will, in part, be decided by the audience, who will be invited to choose what they would like to hear more about: comedy, tragedy, the historical period which gave rise to these timeless plays or a bit of everything.
The festival will be launched on 2nd May with a visit from BBC Radio 4’s The Listening Project in a free event featuring a collection of dynamic, funny and moving conversations between different generations of women, straight from the British Library’s audio archives. Led by broadcaster Fi Glover, artists from the festival will also be sharing their stories and the event will be recorded for broadcast on 5 May.
I’ll Say It Again! runs from 2nd May – 2nd June 2018 at Tara Theatre, Earlsfield.
