Queen's University Belfast - Women TheatreMakers

Lighting designer, Mary Tumelty, and musician, composer and sound engineer, Katie Richardson, talk with Dr Shonagh Hill about their experiences working in the creative roles in which women are most starkly underrepresented and what needs to change in the industry.

Dr Shonagh Hill in conversation with producer and playwright, Gina Donnelly, and writer and director, Seón Simpson, about their partnership Skelpie Limmer and the obstacles currently facing feminist theatre makers in the North of Ireland.

Dr Ali Fitzgibbon speaks with Dr Brenda Winter-Palmer about the legacy of Charabanc Theatre Company. They discuss Brenda’s work since leaving the company, including the establishment of Replay Theatre Company, all of which has been motivated by a deep sense of social justice. This episode was recorded in the Brian Friel Theatre at Queen’s University Belfast as part of the ‘Lay Up Your Ends at 40’ programme of events in Oct 2023 to celebrate the 40-year anniversary of Charabanc’s first production.

‘Watch Our Lips, We’re Speaking’. Carol Moore, one of the founding members of Charabanc Theatre Company, reflects on the formation of the all-women company in the 1980s: a period of violent conflict and unemployment. Carol takes us on a journey through the early days and their first production, Lay Up Your Ends.