Anna Gaidash: Impossible Sisterhood: Representations of the Elderly Female Characters in Ripcord

Anna Gaidash Im/possible Sisterhood: Representations of the Elderly Female Characters in Ripcord The paper examines the literary portrayals of the elderly residents at the Senior Living Facility in David Linsay-Abaire’s comedy Ripcord (2017) in the context of literary gerontology. The purpose of the present paper echoes Wyatt-Brown statement, that “[a]ging is an important one of those…

Event: Celebrating Suffragettes: Edith Craig and Ethel Smyth, Collaborators in Women’s Suffrage Drama, Art and Music

Celebrating Suffragettes: Edith Craig and Ethel Smyth, Collaborators in Women's Suffrage Drama, Art and Music   Professor Katharine Cockin will give an illustrated talk on women's suffrage drama, art and music with reference to her new biography, Edith Craig and the Theatres of Art (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 2017). This will be followed by Dr Simon…