Charged is an epic moment for Clean Break. A moment when thirty-one years of making theatre and delivering theatre education with thousands of women come together through six new and powerful stories. These stories reveal the damage meted out by neglectful families, abusive partners, the criminal justice system and a society that too often turns away and shuns these women. Labelled as offenders, prisoners, inmates, criminals and failures, they are also mothers, sisters, daughters, grandmothers, friends and lovers. Charged is a celebration of these women’s courage, dignity, strength and endurance.
Charged is also a celebration of women as theatre artists. This production brings together, for the first time, six extraordinary women playwrights. Four come from a long line of writers that have been commissioned by the company: Chloë Moss (This Wide Night), E V Crowe (A Just Act), Winsome Pinnock (Mules) and Rebecca Prichard (Yard Gal). Two – Rebecca Lenkiewicz and Sam Holcroft – are new to Clean Break. Each playwright chose her own theme, met with women offenders and criminal justice practitioners as part of the research process, and wrote their individual contributions to Charged.
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