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Play/Dvd | Gateway to Heaven
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In 2004, Clare Summerskill gathered interviews from twenty-four contributors for the play version of. The play was written in the verbatim theatre style, where there is nothing in the script that has not been said by one of the interviewees. There followed a rehearsed play-reading at Oval House Theatre, where the contributors were invited along with representatives from lesbian and gay groups and publications. And Kate Crutchley (Director). Clare Summerskill playing the part of. What the papers said.
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Contributors | Gateway to Heaven
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I am, of course, totally indebted to all of the contributors for their stories and I hope by reading them in this book that many more people will learn about our own often unrecorded and at times, barely visible social and political history. Clare Summerskill, London, 2012. Gateway to Heaven – Fifty Years of Lesbian and Gay Oral History. London: Tollington Press, 2012. Some Extracts from Contributors. So I said Well Mum, I’m trying to find myself. She said What do you mean? I don’t think I had any proble...
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Tollington Press: Hearing Voices by Clare Summerskill
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Click here to buy from the author. A powerful and groundbreaking play about real people's experiences on an NHS psychiatric ward. Hearing Voices is very very important and disturbing. I set up Maytree because of people saying what Clare is saying and dying because the fear of hospital was so great.' —Paddy Bazeley, director of Maytree, a sanctuary for the suicidal. This subject area must be brought into the public domain for understanding and stigma reduction.' —NHS carer. Published in April 2010.
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Hearing Voices | Mindreel
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Skip to main content. This film contains mature content with moderate swearing and references to suicide and sexual abuse. This film explores the experiences of Mental Health Service Users on a secure psychiatric ward, the writer being one of them. The script is taken from interviews with the patients combined with extracts from the writer's own diary and also from certain professionals working alternatively in mental health. And visit www.hearingvoicesplay.co.uk. For more information about the project.
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productions | Artemis Theatre Company
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PERFORMED BY CLARE SUMMERSKILL AND ARTEMIS THEATRE COMPANY. An inspirational new play about the struggles and triumphs of lesbians and gay men who have fled to the UK from persecution. What happens when they get to the country that they hope will offer refuge? Who is welcome, who is locked up, and who is deported? Real-life stories of LGBT asylum seekers brought to the stage in this brand new verbatim production. Tues 17th May HUDDERSFIELD LAWRENCE BATLEY THEATRE 01484 430528 www.thelbt.org. Presented by...
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Book | Gateway to Heaven
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When people talk about their lives, people lie sometimes, forget a little, exaggerate, become confused, get things wrong. Yet they are revealing truths. The guiding principle could be that all autobiographical memory is true: it is up to the interpreter to discover in what sense, where, and for what purpose. Clare Summerskill, London, 2012. Personal Narrative Group (Eds). Truths’, Interpreting Women’s Lives: Feminist Theory and Personal Narratives. London: Tollington Press, 2012. Comments on the Book.
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Clare Summerskill | Gateway to Heaven
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About Clare: Stand-up, Acting, Writing, Theatre and Talks. Clare has been described by. Radio 4 Woman’s Hour. As A Lesbian Victoria Wood and by. As One of the funniest women in the country. Clare performs an original cocktail of stand-up and comedy songs to mainly Gay and Lesbian audiences up and down the country and has even been known to make straight people chuckle just a little bit! She brings Dyke humour to the forefront of alternative comedy! And performed in the Number One Tour of. As well as on.
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Forthcoming Events | Clare Summerskill
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Saturday 25th June, 7.30pm. Clare will appear as part of a wonderful line up of artists at Suburbaret! World Tour of Zone 3: Walthamstow. At Ye Olde Rose and Crowne Theatre Pub (Cabaret Room). 55 Hoe St, E17 4SA London. 8220;fantastic line-up, a playful theme, and a sensible finish time” This is Cabaret. 8220;astoundingly good” Cabaret Scenes London. 8220;muddy and vulgar, intelligent and bonkers and sexy” Erotic Review. 8220;variety delivered with a strong contemporary edge” Wandsworth Radio. Weds 11th ...
