Femininity - Culturised

International Women’s Day: Bernard MacLaverty’s ‘Midwinter Break’

by Rebecca Duncan | Mar 8, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Literature & Film, Uncategorized

In her review of Bernard MacLaverty’s latest novel Midwinter Break, Irish author Anne Enright...

Continuing Restoration Battles: Hannah Cowley’s ‘The Belle’s Stratagem’

by Hannah Forsyth | Mar 8, 2018 | Homepage Featured, Performance, Spotlight

“All I know is whatever we do – it must be twice as well as men to be thought half as...

A Labour of Love: In Conversation with Jennifer Kirby

by Sian Bayley | Jan 19, 2018 | Features, Homepage Featured, Interviews, Literature & Film

Actress Jennifer Kirby has had an illustrious stage career, working with the Royal Shakespeare...

“I am not my reproductive system”: ‘Yerma’ at the Young Vic

by Georgina Wilson | Aug 30, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight

“Regret – not now, maybe later”, says the unnamed Her (Billie Piper). She thinks it might be a...

Can Women be Doctors?: Regenerating Doctor Who

by Ruth Phillips | Aug 7, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

Here is an anecdote from a friend: My sister, who is now actually a practicing doctor, when asked...

A Night Out On Stage: In Conversation with Eggs Collective

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | Aug 5, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Features, Interviews, Performance

Eggs Collective consists of Sara Cocker, Lowri Evans, and Léonie Higgins. Based in Manchester they...

She-Hulk: Marvel’s Wonder Woman

by Rocco Thompson | Jul 27, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

As Wonder Woman lasso-of-truthed into theaters on June 2nd, film and comic geeks alike waited with...

She’s Got the Power: Naomi Alderman’s ‘The Power’ and Empowerment Feminism

by Katie Goh | Jul 21, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

The Power – winner of the 2017 Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction and critically lauded as The...

Screening ‘Julius Caesar’: In Conversation with Phyllida Lloyd

by Alex Killeen | Jul 12, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance

Phyllida Lloyd has recently conducted a revolutionary experiment with Shakespeare. Billed as the...

Caesar on Parole: in Conversation with Jackie Clune

by Alex Killeen | Jul 10, 2017 | Features, Interviews, Literature & Film, Performance

Jackie Clune plays the title role in Phyllida Lloyd’s latest production of Julius Caesar,...

Dancing While Black: In Conversation with Pauline Mayers

by Dzifa Benson | Jun 24, 2017 | Edinburgh Fringe 2017, Features, Interviews, Performance

For most of her life, dancer, choreographer, and theatre-maker Pauline Mayers has had to battle...

The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: A Cult Hit?

by Victoria Fell | Jun 12, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

For those without kind and loving friends from whom you steal Netflix, let me introduce you to The...

Hunger Made Me a Modern Girl: Food and Femininity in ‘Raw’ and ‘The Vegetarian’

by Katie Goh | Jun 1, 2017 | Features, Literature & Film

“Nope nope nope,”[1] said the tabloids, disgusted, “French horror film Raw has inspired such...

Yäel Farber’s ‘Salomé’: A Provocative Reimagining of an Ancient Myth

by Alex Hackitt-Anwyl | May 21, 2017 | Performance, Spotlight

Yäel Farber is no stranger to controversy and mixed reaction. In her latest endeavour, Salomé at...

Take It Away! It’s Horrible!: Bette Davis and Familial Terror

by Rocco Thompson | Mar 29, 2017 | Big Reads, Literature & Film

“I was a legendary terror. I was insufferably rude and ill-mannered in the cultivation of my...

“I have nothing | Of woman in me”: Renaissance Tragic Women and the Performance of Gender

by Charlie Seymour | Mar 8, 2017 | Features, Performance

It is tempting to see something masculine in the powerful women of Renaissance tragedy, to hold...

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