No Bad Women

Please help Women Against Rape and the English Collective of Prostitutes raise funds to stage a dramatic production of a rape trial where two sex workers took on their rapist in court.

Call for actors,(some roles with part time pay, others travel and food expenses), technitions, stage manager, general help. Auditions 17-19 Sept For character list and production details, contact Lisa at war@womenagainstrape.net.

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View teaser from rehearsals in 2015, when the play was called ‘Pursuing Justice’. Please support this bold creative project. Publicise, donate, take part.

It’s 1995.  Two sex workers have been raped separately at knifepoint while visiting a client’s house in suburbia. They report it, but despite continuing threats, the Crown Prosecution Service closed the case claiming ‘insufficient evidence’.

Scared and outraged, the women came to the English Collective of Prostitutes and Women Against Rape. They assembled a legal team to take the rapist to court, and prevent attacks on more women.

This bold imaginative action was the first ever private prosecution for rape in England and Wales.

This play is the moving dramatisation of the trial, drawn from the transcript.

Tension builds towards the final verdict – will the women get protection and justice?

Sold-out pilot shows in 2015 had great reviews: “Challenging . . . uncompromising, everything theatre should be.”  Tribune

Call for actors,(some roles with part time pay, others travel and food expenses), technitions, stage manager, general help. Auditions 17-19 Sept For character list and production details, contact Lisa at war@womenagainstrape.net.

Why now?

The case established that every victim is entitled to justice. This principle was picked up by the #MeToo and TimesUp movements and accounts of rape and other violence poured out from women from all walks of life. A play that looks at who is classed as an “unreliable witness” and who a jury will believe is right on time.

Austerity cuts have targeted women. Rising poverty makes it harder for women to resist and escape exploitation and violence. More women, particularly mothers are going into sex work to feed their children. Yet, sex workers are deterred from reporting violence by the fear of arrest and for migrant workers, the fear of deportation.

When and where

1 to 14 November 2019 [except Sundays 3rd and 10th Nov], 7pm, Clean Break, 2 Patshull Rd, Kentish Town, London NW5 2LB.  

Wheelchair access. Sign-language interpreters at some shows.

Q&As with an original complainant, the cast and campaigners from ECP and WAR will follow six performances. 

Directed by renowned US writer-director, Lesley Delmenico.

To make it happen we need to raise a further £10,000

Your donations will help fund:

  • Nine actors
  • Costumes
  • Lighting and sound
  • Rehearsal space
  • Stage manager fees
  • Travel and expenses for 10 volunteers
  • Graphic design for marketing online and printing
  • Subsidised tickets for refugees, asylum seekers and unwaged people
  • Sign language interpreters

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