Historical Dinner Party Guests, Post #9
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usedtobeljsShort version of me: exhausted, down, pollen-ridden. Let's move on.
So today in The Guardian, in advance of the National Theatre's revival of Caryl Churchill's feminist play Top Girls, there was an article in which famous contemporary women were asked which famous women from history they would invite to a dinner party. (The Churchill play famously begins with a historical dinner party, with women from Patient Griselda to explorer Isabella Bird to concubine and nun Lady Nijo.)
The list offered by the article is cool -- I am especially taken by Noma Dumezweni naming Nina Simone as someone she'd invite. If I were playing....
*Jane Austen
*Dorothy Sayers
*Lucy Madox Brown (a Pre-Raphaelite painter)
*Aphra Behn (17th-century female playwright)
*Myrna Loy
Who would you invite? :)
So today in The Guardian, in advance of the National Theatre's revival of Caryl Churchill's feminist play Top Girls, there was an article in which famous contemporary women were asked which famous women from history they would invite to a dinner party. (The Churchill play famously begins with a historical dinner party, with women from Patient Griselda to explorer Isabella Bird to concubine and nun Lady Nijo.)
The list offered by the article is cool -- I am especially taken by Noma Dumezweni naming Nina Simone as someone she'd invite. If I were playing....
*Jane Austen
*Dorothy Sayers
*Lucy Madox Brown (a Pre-Raphaelite painter)
*Aphra Behn (17th-century female playwright)
*Myrna Loy
Who would you invite? :)
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